107 AND 109, HIGH STREET
107 AND 109, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261668
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 107 AND 109, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 107 AND 109, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261668
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 107 AND 109, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 107 AND 109, 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:
- 107 AND 109, 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:
- TM 08748 55148
Details
NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (WEST) TM 0855
3/95 Nos.107 and 109 -
- II
Two houses, built as one in early C15. A former open hall house with two contemporary cross-wings. Alterations of c.1500, c.1600 and late C19. 2 storeys, 4 windows. Timber-framed, encased at front in C19 painted gault brick, with a flat pilaster rising to the foot of each of 3 gables. Plaintiled roofs with parapet gables. Rear chimneys of red brick. C19 windows with flat arches of gauged brick. No.107 has C19 windows with wooden mullions and transomes; No.109 has similar windows of late C20. No.107 has a 4-panelled C19 entrance door, the upper panels glazed; No.109 has a late C20 boarded and battened door. No.109 contains the hall and right-hand wing; the present entrance marks a cross-passage within the service wing. A moulded spere-beam, with evidence for posts and braces now removed, is at the end of the former open hall to the left. The chamber over the service has a fully- exposed crownpost roof of 2 bays; the open truss has a cambered arch-braced tie-beam with a short octagonal crownpost, 4-way knee-braced and with a moulded capital. This wing has massive exposed floor joists and evidence for a jetty towards the street. No.107 comprises the left-hand cross-wing, which has a complete crownpost roof, the square crownposts 2-way knee-braced. To the rear of the hall range is a 2-bay wing of c.1500, which may once have been detached. It has underbuilt jettying on 2 consecutive sides, with concealed moulded bressumers and a missing corner-post, and a plain crownpost roof. The ground floor room of this wing has mid C18 wainscotting and there is a little matching joinery elsewhere. An upper floor was inserted over the hall c.1600, with ovolo-moulded beams and joists. A large open fireplace (now blocked) was placed against the rear wall of the hall, and the original roof over the open hall was rebuilt with a gable towards the street. A rental of 1476 states of this house:- "Robert Flegg holds free a tenement called Bretts, formerly owned by John Raven". Samuel Alexander founded a bank here in 1744, before moving to No.129 High Street in 1756.
Listing NGR: TM0874855148
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436927
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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