Anglesey House

TL 5663 15/178 1.12.51

SWAFFHAM PRIOR HIGH STREET (East Side) No 59 Anglesey House

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House, probably late C17 extended early in C18 and again late in same century by the addition of a room at the North end. Front wall is timber-framed, rendered on a narrow brick sill but the side and rear walls are clunch, except for the apex of the gables which are also framed. Roof raised, early C18, plain tiled with two similar stacks of gault brick with string-courses in the form of cornices. Original plan of single range of four rooms and lobby entry but passage cut through the stack c1900. Two storeys. Four early C18 cross frame casements with leaded lights and iron stay bars. Some of the glazing is original. At ground floor four similar windows except for two which are of three lights. There are similar casements in the gables of the early C18 addition at the rear. The late C18 addition to the North is clunch cased in gault brick. Inside the heads of the posts of the framed front wall are visible at first floor and mark the original eaves height. There is also an early C18 closed string staircase (reset) with square newels and turned balusters, and some panelling now concealed in a ground floor room.

R.C.H.M. (North East Cambs.), p123, mon (9)

Listing NGR: TL5674463886