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Latitude: 52.1548 / 52°9'17"N
Longitude: 1.0512 / 1°3'4"E
OS Eastings: 608820
OS Northings: 255109
OS Grid: TM088551
Mapcode National: GBR TLD.W0L
Mapcode Global: VHLBC.53KH
Plus Code: 9F435332+WF
Entry Name: 78 and 80, High Street
Listing Date: 9 December 1955
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1261671
English Heritage Legacy ID: 436949
ID on this website: 101261671
Location: Needham Market, Mid Suffolk, IP6
County: Suffolk
District: Mid Suffolk
Civil Parish: Needham Market
Built-Up Area: Needham Market
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Needham Market with Badley St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
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NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (EAST)
TM 0855
3/117 Nos. 78 and 80
9.12.55
- II
Two houses, built C15 as a 3-cell open hall house. Alterations of C16 and
C19. 2 storeys. 5 windows. Timber-framed and pebble-dashed. Plaintiled
roofs with rear chimneys of red brick. C19 small-pane sashes. No.78 has a
pair of late C19 shop windows with large panes, and No.80 an earlier C19
square bay shop window with flat leaded roof. No.78 has a C19 4-panelled door
(the upper pair glazed), and No.80 a plank door possibly of C17, adapted to a
stable-type door. No.78 comprises a formerly-open hall with a storeyed end
cell to right. No.80 contains another storeyed cell. Some widely-spaced
studwork exposed in No.80 with convex arched wind-bracing. Complete coupled-
rafter roof with smoke-blackening above the hall. A rear wing of 3 bays was
added in mid C16 to No.80 with crown post roof, the posts square and plank-
braced 2 ways. On the left hand gable, now facing into the roofspace of the
adjacent later C18 building, is an oval cartouche in raised plasterwork
bearing the date 1712 and initials T.F.C. The border is embedded with
fragments of coloured glass.
Listing NGR: TM0882055109
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