59, High Street

ORWELL HIGH STREET TL 3650 (North side) 14/276 No. 59 (formerly listed 17.3.78 as Nos 59 and 61) GV II

House, c.1600 with bay to east end rebuilt or added C19. Timber framed, plaster rendered and thatched. Two ridge stacks, both C19 insertions. The original ridge stack has been removed, although the inglenook remains. Two bays survive of the c.1600 house. Two storeys. Two small modern casements at first floor and two at ground floor. Doorway now in modern porch. Interior: Sealed inglenook hearth of clunch. This bay was originally open to the roof. The floor was inserted in the C17-C18. The joists are laid on edge and are of lighter scantling than those in the bay to the west. Original closed partition wall between the two original bays of the house. This is carried up through the first floor and to the ridge. The west gable end wall has, at ground floor, an original six-light window with hollow and roll moulded mullions. At first floor, jowled heads to the posts and cranked bracing.. At ground floor in the front wall of the original wall there is a fragment of wall painting, now concealed.

R.C.H.M.: Record Card

Listing NGR: TL3662650431