Description

SOUTHWOLD

TM5076 HIGH STREET
588-1/7/63 (North East side)
22/11/71 Nos.82, 84 AND 86
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(East side)
No.82)

GV II

House, converted later to three houses; now two shops. Early
C17; rear extensions added and subdivided in early C19;
converted to shops in early C20 with one early C20 shop front.
Timber frame faced with rendered brick, whitewashed at front;
black-glazed pantile roofs with brick stack at rear of cross
wing. L-shaped plan.
EXTERIOR: main range of single storey with dormer attic, 2
bays: to left, cross wing gable is 2 storeyed with attic. Main
range has C20 plate glass shop display windows and off-centre
door, under catslide roof: two dormer are fitted with 2/2
horned sash windows. Cross wing has canted plate glass bay
window to ground floor, C20 plate-glass display window right
and a half-glazed C19 door further right. On first floor,
tripartite sash with 0/0, 2/2, 0/0 horned glazing bars. To
attic, one 4/4 horned sash beneath plaque bearing initials T M
(for Thomas Moore) and date 1662. Shouldered gable with tie
irons.
Rear: cross wing gable projects to right: to left,
single-storey gabled extension, further left 2-storey
extension.
Original cross wing obscured by later accretions; central
extension has top-hung window to left of plain door; left
extension has 3/3 sashes on both floors.
INTERIOR: cross wing has chamfered bridging and spine beams
with jewel stops. Partially blocked fireplace in east wall of
rear room. C19 winder staircase. C17 rendered brick
first-floor fireplace. Roof of commons only.
Main range has suspended ceiling to ground floor, but ceiling
of former first floor visible above: sunk-quadrant-moulded
bridging beams with jewel stops.
Early C17 roof visible only from No.82: undiminished
principals, collars and clasped purlins. Remainder of roof
replaced late C17: principals, 2 tiers butt purlins and
collars.
(Bottomley A & Hutchinson J: Discovering Southwold: Southwold:
1988-: 27).

Listing NGR: TM5073876221

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664218

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey