The Sun Public House

1. TM 0533 26/27 5214

DEDHAM HIGH STREET (north side) The Sun Public House

(formerly listed as the Sun Hotel)

23.6.52

GV II*

2. C14 and later timber framed and plastered with ridged, gabled and hipped roofs clad in pegtile. Plan complex, based on an L. Two red brick chimneys each with modern tops. Ridge height broken at east, where 2 bays with full-height carriage arch to rear yard. Western range has a parapet with dentilled wooden cornice, first storey on underbuilt jetty, now painted brick. A semi-hexagonal bow-window in third place range has 3, 3 part small-paned sashes including bow-window and 2 pedimented doorcases in places 2 and 5, then archway and a pair of small-paned ashes in exposed boxes. First storey has modern casements, except for the bow window, and 2 sliding-sashes on right of archway. Elizabethan stairs tower at rear (west) with rich detailing and jettied gable on brackets. Stair external under pentice, pegtiled. Inside: 2 builds visible, that to, west of one bay, chimney bay without chimney and a bay. Then to east a tall one bay build with former frontal long-wall jetty supported on finely wrought joists, richly moulded and soffit-tenoned.

Listing NGR: TM0568933166