10, 12-14 High Street
10, 12-14, High Street, Debenham, Stowmarket, IP14 6QJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032327
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- 10, 12-14 High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 10, 12-14, High Street, Debenham, Stowmarket, IP14 6QJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032327
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 10, 12-14 High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 10, 12-14, High Street, Debenham, Stowmarket, IP14 6QJ
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 10, 12-14, High Street, Debenham, Stowmarket, IP14 6QJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Debenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 17349 63316
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 July 2023 to amend the name and address, and to reformat the text to current standards
TM 16 SE
6/96
DEBENHAM
HIGH STREET (west side)
Nos 10, 12-14
(Formerly listed as Fleming's Antiques & Post Office, previously listed as Post Office; Barclay's Bank; Premises adjoining Barclay's Bank on S.side)
9.12.55
GV
II
Originally guildhall of Holy Trinity, now antique dealers premises. Mid C15; Post Office is later addition, perhaps C17. Timber framed, the facade mainly roughcast-rendered, part to left plastered. Plaintiled roof, the tiles on the rear slope of concrete.
Two storeys with small attic. The guildhall was jettied to front and rear, now mostly underbuilt except for a small portion to rear with two original brackets. Various windows of C19 and C20. Former Antiques shop has an early C19 bowed shopfront: two windows each with 24 panes; central doorway with mid C20 semi-glazed door in two leaves, oblong overlight with geometric glazing bars. Flat-roofed open porch on square timber posts; above is a nameboard in the form of an elaborate cartouche. Disused doorway to centre.
Former Post Office has a flush 15-paned shop window and C20 semi-glazed door; two small-paned mid C20 casements above. Two internal stacks, the earlier one to left with plain axial shaft.
Interior. The guildhall is in four bays; the ground floor was divided into two equal rooms and the upper floor was a single full-length room, open to the roof. It was unheated. Ceiling of ground floor has heavy plain joists. Exposed studding in south gable end on upper floor. North gable end has original first floor doorway with four-centred arch. Fine two-tier roof. Cambered tie beams with arched braces rising from buttress-shafts on the wallposts. The tie beams carry queen-posts, plain except for chamfers on the inner face, which are braced to the arcade plates. Cambered upper tie beams carry short chamfered crown-posts with four-way bracing. C16 stack inserted in third bay from south.
Interior of former Post Office not examined. Referred to as 'the new hall' of the Gild of the Holy Trinity in a Bloodhall Manor rental of 1463. The guildhall facade is described in c.1850 as having been herringbone brick nogged and with a 'new frontage of late years' (Samuel Dove's Debenham, 1986, p.7). For structural drawings see Mr T. Easton, Bedfield Hall.
Listing NGR: TM1734963316
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281520
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Samuel Doves Debenham, (1986), 7
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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