34 And 36, Pratt Street

TL 5973 SOHAM PRATT STREET (East Side) 13/70 Nos. 34 and 36

GV II

House, mid C16 with the exterior totally remodelled in c.1800 when it was converted to a handed pair of villas. Timber frame, completely cased in gault brick, with a parapetted roof of steep pitch covered with slates. Shaped ridge stack on site of original. Two storeys. Finely gauged grey brick arches to four recessed hung sashes of twelve panes each on either side of a blind window opening opposite the stack. Four similar windows at ground floor flank the two adjacent doorways with identical c.1800 surrounds and flat hoods. The doors are c.1950. Inside. The timber framing is intact and the front and rear wall fanning is partially visible. The original ceiling has been exposed in No. 34, and has particularly fine intersecting main beams carved with foliate ornament. The inglenook hearth is of narrow red brick which has been cased. No. 36 has a good c.1800 interior with raised and fielded panelling to the doors and below the dado. There are intersecting main beams, now boxed and a semi-domed hood to a niche with round headed arch and shaped shelving. The roof is of clasped, through purlin construction with collars between the principal rafters. Part of the original main beam is visible in a cupboard and has wide stop chamfers.

Listing NGR: TL5925073606