2 AND 4, HIGH STREET
2 AND 4, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254055
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- 2 AND 4, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2 AND 4, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254055
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- 2 AND 4, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 AND 4, HIGH STREET
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:
- 2 AND 4, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Needham Market
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0902754781
Details
TM 0954
3/103
9.12.55
NEEDHAM MARKET
HIGH STREET (EAST)
Nos. 2 and 4
II
Bank and offices. Built mid C17 as a free school under the terms of the Will
of Sir Francis Theobald, Lord of the Manor of Barking and Needham Market (died
1632). He directed that the Guildhall at Barking be "pulled down and carried
to Needham and set up.....". However, his instructions are known not to have
been carried out for several decades. 3-cell lobby-entrance plan; alterations
of late C19. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and roughcast; some areas
of framing are exposed and painted. Plaintiled roofs with axial chimneys of
red brick, and pierced and undulating bargeboards with spike finials. C19
gabled dormers with cusped bargeboards and casements. Late C19 mullioned and
transomed windows with casements and leaded lights; a large flat-roofed
segmental bay to left. 2-storey gabled entrance porch with C19/C20 arched oak
framed and boarded door. Many timber-framing members are exposed internally
or externally, and are certainly reused from a late C15 or early C16 building,
whose hall was probably on the upper floor and of 3 bays. There is also
evidence for a closed truss with a further cell beyond. The floor joists and
all main components are heavy and unmoulded, typical for a rural guildhall of
c.1500. The mid C17 rebuilding is of domestic 3-cell form, with massive axial
chimney, chamfered joists of smaller section in the parlour cell, and butt-
purlin roof. A rear wing of 2 storeys may be C17 and remodelled, or possibly
added c.1900. A History of Needham Market: H. Paget, C.B.E., 1984.
Listing NGR: TM0902754781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436935
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pagett, H, A History of Needham Market, (1984)
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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