Description

TL 85 NE LT. WELNETHAM SUUBURY RUAD

5/120 Crutched Friars Friars
(Formerly listed as Chapel
14.7.55 Hill Farmhouse under General)

II

House, formerly the priory of about 5 brothers of the Order of the Holy Cross
of Welnetham, known as the Crutched Friars (founded c.1274, suppressed c.1536);
c.1500, altered C16 and early C20. 2 storeys and attics. U-plan; timber-
framed on the inward-facing sides of the U with plastered panels between
exposed framing, the upper floor long-wall jettied. The outward-facing walls
of red brick with areas of diaper-patterning in blue headers; crow-stepped
gables with reset terracotta tiles having various motifs. Plaintiled roofs
with gabled plaintiled dormers. Massive external chimneys of red brick.
Windows with 3- and 4-centred arched heads, (some hood-moulded), moulded brick
jambs and mullions; heavily restored early C20, with metal casements. 4 small 1
dormitory windows with trefoiled heads on the east side. Timber-framed
cloister arcade on the inward-facing sides with 4-centred arches; infilled and
glazed C16, restored C20. The central range of the U-plan was originally a
narrow link between 2 short and equal ranges (the west range truncated C20); a
narrow cloister, now altered, ran round the small court, linking with the
flint-walled chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr on its north side, of which only a
buttress remains at the north-east corner of the house. The present queen-
post roof is probably a C16 rebuilding. A red brick and plain-tiled 1 storey
extension on the south side, c.1970.

Listing NGR: TL8871158748

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26567942

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair