78 AND 80, HIGH STREET
78 AND 80, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261671
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- 78 AND 80, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 78 AND 80, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261671
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- 78 AND 80, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 78 AND 80, 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:
- 78 AND 80, 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 08820 55109
Details
NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (EAST) TM 0855
3/117 Nos. 78 and 80
9.12.55
- II
Two houses, built C15 as a 3-cell open hall house. Alterations of C16 and C19. 2 storeys. 5 windows. Timber-framed and pebble-dashed. Plaintiled roofs with rear chimneys of red brick. C19 small-pane sashes. No.78 has a pair of late C19 shop windows with large panes, and No.80 an earlier C19 square bay shop window with flat leaded roof. No.78 has a C19 4-panelled door (the upper pair glazed), and No.80 a plank door possibly of C17, adapted to a stable-type door. No.78 comprises a formerly-open hall with a storeyed end cell to right. No.80 contains another storeyed cell. Some widely-spaced studwork exposed in No.80 with convex arched wind-bracing. Complete coupled- rafter roof with smoke-blackening above the hall. A rear wing of 3 bays was added in mid C16 to No.80 with crown post roof, the posts square and plank- braced 2 ways. On the left hand gable, now facing into the roofspace of the adjacent later C18 building, is an oval cartouche in raised plasterwork bearing the date 1712 and initials T.F.C. The border is embedded with fragments of coloured glass.
Listing NGR: TM0882055109
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436949
- 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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