Change House

TL 73 NE 4/39 7.8.1952

GREAT YELDHAM CHURCH ROAD, East Side Change House

GV II

House, mainly C16, with C19 and early C20 additions. Timber framed, mainly plastered with some weatherboarding, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Complex plan of irregular E-form, aspect SW, with 3 wings extending NE. One internal chimney stack at SW end of middle wing, one at junction of SE wing and middle range, external stacks at NE ends of 2 outside wings, and extensions beyond. Stair tower between SE wing and middle wing. Other single-storey extensions to NE. 2 storeys. SW elevation, 6-panel door in C20 doorcase with 2 columns and architrave, and 4-window range of C20 sashes. 2 original octagonal shafts on SE internal stack, 2 C19/20 octagonal shafts on rear internal stack. The interior has chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops, and sections of early C17 panelling on ground floor. The staircase has an octagonal newel post and flat balusters, c.1600. The 2 first-floor rooms at the W corner comprise the most valuable interior, with extremely wide curved braces trenched inside heavy studding, but the floor below is rebuilt and the room below much altered. Heavily weathered framing is exposed on both sides of the middle wing, now enclosed within later extensions. All the roofs are of clasped purlin form. RCHM 9.

Listing NGR: TL7571838812