Description

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TM 0735
6/27

EAST BERGHOLT
GASTON STREET (East Side)
Gothic House, Little Gothics and Commandree

(Formerly listed as The Gothics, Little Gothics, Commandree)

22.2.55

GV
II

House with additional ranges, now forming three dwellings. Late C15 house with probable C17 additions and mid C19 remodelling. Timber-framed, rendered. Plain tiles, red brick stacks. Original house had open hall range with jettied cross wing to left and service wing to right. Projecting added cross wing to each side, that to right of two builds. Further additions to right and rear. Mid C19 remodelling in Tudor style. Two storeys, except for former hall range which is now one storey and attic. C15 range: internal evidence for original cross passage entry to right, remodelled to form lobby-entry to left adjacent to jettied wing. C20 door. C19 mullion and transom windows throughout, square bay to ground floor of jettied wing. Two gabled dormers. Upper part of ridge stack rebuilt. Gabled added cross wings are jettied to front and have similar detailing. Bargeboards to gables. Rear section of right wing has mansard roof.

Interior: Little Gothics now occupies the hall range and ground floor of service range to right. Framing exposed including studded walls. Original cross passage doors and paired service doors (one renewed) with chamfered Tudor arches. C16 ceiling with moulded beams with leaf stops and moulded joists. Inglenook, somewhat remodelled, with chamfered bressummer. Section of inserted C17 panelling. Kitchen in former service range retains cross beam with mortices for original partition wall. Attic: the hall crown post and tie beam have been renewed but a C20 post has been inserted to support the original capital and braces which survive together with the rest of the roof. Front wall plate shows diamond mortices and shutter groove of original hall window.

Interior of former The Gothics not inspected.

Listing NGR: TM0703634713

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26574770

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)