Rufus Leo

Details

TL 7924 and 8024 STISTED THE STREET (east side)

7/291 and 8/291 Rufus Leo

GV II

House. Late C14 and mid-C16, altered in early C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered with some painted brick, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Late C14 3-bay crosswing of a former hall house extending to rear. To right, separated structurally from it by approximately 0.70 metre, 2 bays of an originally 3-bay mid-C16 main range facing W, with late C16 stack to right of middle against front wall. Extension to rear of crosswing, and catslide extension to rear of main range. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 16 lights. First floor, one similar sash, and 2 of 4 + 8 lights. In crosswing, C20 door with C20 tiled canopy on brackets. At right end of main range, set back within thickness of wall below jetty, original doorway with Tudor head. Inscribed date 'Circa 1425' in oval surround in modern plaster. Wrought iron bracket of former inn sign. The former service bay at the right end has been demolished, but at a slight splay, and the lower storey closed with painted brick. The crosswing has heavy plain joists of horizontal section, arranged longitudinally in the front bay for an underbuilt jetty, transversely in the other bays. Jowled posts. Heavy studding with external bracing. Studding mainly removed from rear wall. Wattle and daub infill in both side walls (2 panels exposed, with different surface patterns). On the first floor, groove for sliding shutter at front, one complete unglazed window with 3 diamond mullions and groove for sliding shutter on each side of rear bay. Rear tiebeam chamfered with step stops; tiebeam between middle and front bays missing; mortices for deep arched braces to it. In each wallplate is a scarf of rare type, face-splayed with inclined abutments, and 3 edge-pegs visible. Crownpost roof. The main range has a full-length underbuilt jetty, still present in the thickness of the wall of the right bay. Jowled posts. Rear studding largely removed. Diamond mortices of former unglazed window in rear wallplate, shutter rebate for another in front wallplate. Chamfered binding beam with step stops, similar axial beam in left bay, plain joists of horizontal section jointed to it with soffit tenons with diminished haunches. Large wood-burning hearth in right bay, facing to left, mainly rebuilt in C20 from late C16 original, on site of earlier timber-framed chimney. Crownpost roof. The central crownpost is chamfered with step stops on the left, but plain on the right where it formerly backed on to the timber chimney. The cross-entry to rear of the stack remains open, with its original front doorway and Tudor head (wrongly described as re-used and 4-centred in RCHM 10). The service bay was probably removed in C19 estate improvements, as it lay in front of the left end of no. 29, to the right (item 7/292 and 8/292, q.v.). This house was The Red Lion Inn until c.1970.

Listing NGR: TL7999624739

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