Description

1. FRIARS STREET

1692 (South East Side) No 17 TL 8741 3/50 3.3.52.

II* GV

2. An interesting late C16 building (said to be earlier) with good detail though with considerable exterior and interior alterations. Roof may have been heightened in C18 or later. 2 storey timber-framed with plastered panels, roofs tiled, the upper storey projects on the front. It has curious and unusual supporting brackets the caved ornament is under-cut and hangs clear of the back part of the bracket. There is a very large rectangular chimney stack at the South end of the house, and the ground floor room (now shop) has a very large open fireplace with heavy beam. There is a fine old staircase, and said to be a wood ribbed ceiling and original bay windows in the back wing of the house.

Nos 7 to 17 (odd) form a group.

Listing NGR: TL8730041167

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014