Description

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SS826000 HIGH STREET 672-1/5/91 (North side) 11/10/72 Nos.99 & 100

GV II

Shop with accommodation over, now used as 2 shops and offices. Probably a late C18/early C19 rebuild of an earlier house. Roughcast; slate roof; left end stack with rendered shaft with bands, right end stack. Plan: Double depth plan, 2 rooms wide, with a passage entrance to left of centre. Stair rises against rear wall of right hand front room. Exterior: 3 storeys. 3-bay front, symmetrical above the ground floor. Deep eaves with moulded eaves brackets and a moulded eaves fascia board. 3 ground and 3 first floor probably early C19 16-pane sashes with plain stucco architraves. Good doorcase to left of centre with applied pilasters, an entablature with a mutule frieze and a dentil frieze below the cornice. Panelled reveals, panelled door. Shop window to the right has similar applied pilasters, a fascia and cornice; plate glass window. Smaller, later, shop window to the left with plain pilasters and an entablature, glazed with a high transomed window with small panes above the transom. Interior: Altered for shop use but retaining early C19 joinery and a stick baluster stair with a mahogany handrail. Circa 1860s encaustic tiling to the entrance passage. The owner reports evidence of the former 2-storey roofline noticed during building work. An attractive town house with a good shop front and door, part of a group with the Congregational Chapel and Manse (q.v.) to the left.

Listing NGR: SS8296700365

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)