Description

NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (WEST)
TM 0855

3/95 Nos.107 and 109
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- II

Two houses, built as one in early C15. A former open hall house with two
contemporary cross-wings. Alterations of c.1500, c.1600 and late C19. 2
storeys, 4 windows. Timber-framed, encased at front in C19 painted gault
brick, with a flat pilaster rising to the foot of each of 3 gables.
Plaintiled roofs with parapet gables. Rear chimneys of red brick. C19
windows with flat arches of gauged brick. No.107 has C19 windows with wooden
mullions and transomes; No.109 has similar windows of late C20. No.107 has a
4-panelled C19 entrance door, the upper panels glazed; No.109 has a late C20
boarded and battened door. No.109 contains the hall and right-hand wing; the
present entrance marks a cross-passage within the service wing. A moulded
spere-beam, with evidence for posts and braces now removed, is at the end of
the former open hall to the left. The chamber over the service has a fully-
exposed crownpost roof of 2 bays; the open truss has a cambered arch-braced
tie-beam with a short octagonal crownpost, 4-way knee-braced and with a
moulded capital. This wing has massive exposed floor joists and evidence for
a jetty towards the street. No.107 comprises the left-hand cross-wing, which
has a complete crownpost roof, the square crownposts 2-way knee-braced. To the
rear of the hall range is a 2-bay wing of c.1500, which may once have been
detached. It has underbuilt jettying on 2 consecutive sides, with concealed
moulded bressumers and a missing corner-post, and a plain crownpost roof. The
ground floor room of this wing has mid C18 wainscotting and there is a little
matching joinery elsewhere. An upper floor was inserted over the hall c.1600,
with ovolo-moulded beams and joists. A large open fireplace (now blocked) was
placed against the rear wall of the hall, and the original roof over the open
hall was rebuilt with a gable towards the street. A rental of 1476 states of
this house:- "Robert Flegg holds free a tenement called Bretts, formerly owned
by John Raven". Samuel Alexander founded a bank here in 1744, before moving
to No.129 High Street in 1756.

Listing NGR: TM0874855148

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552601

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)