Newmans

BURES HAMLET BRIDGE STREET TL 9034 (north side) 5/31 No. 5 (Newmans) GV II House. Late C15. Timber framed, plastered, with some framing exposed at right side, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. L-plan, consisting of 3-bay main range facing S, with axial chimney stack one bay from left end, and irregular wing to right extending to the rear. C18/19 single-storey extensions to rear of main range. 2 storeys. The corner bay has a late C19 shopfront, disused, with 2 arched shop windows (mullions between them removed), doors either side, one half-glazed, one 4-panel, and fascia supported by 4 scrolled brackets. 2 early C19 sashes of 16 lights on ground floor and 3 on first floor. Crosswing roof hipped. The interior has a full-length underbuilt jetty, moulded beams and joists (with carved foliate stops in the left bay only), jowled posts, and a late C16 framed ceiling over the first floor of the left bay, with ovolo-moulded beam and chamfered joists of horizontal section with step stops. The crownpost roof of the crosswing is exposed, with axial braces to the crownposts. No access to roof of main range. Described by RCHM as The Old Toll House.

Listing NGR: TL9053234028