Lavenhams

Lavenhams is a hall house dating from the 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th century and an extension added in the 20th century. The building is timber-framed, plastered, and has a tiled roof. Originally, it featured a hall with two crosswings, of which the northern crosswing remains largely unaltered. A chimney was inserted at the south end of the hall in the late 16th century, and the walls of the hall were raised to two-storey height. The upper part of the southern crosswing was rebuilt, and an external chimney stack was added at the northern end in the early 17th century. The jetty of the northern crosswing was underbuilt in the 18th century. There is a flat-roofed single-storey extension to the north from the 20th century. The south end of the roof is hipped, while the northern crosswing is hipped to the west and gabled to the east. The main house has a three-window range with 20th-century casements. Some of the framing is exposed internally, featuring jowled storey posts and stop-chamfered beams. The northern crosswing has a crown-post roof, with a central crown post concealed within a partition and missing axial braces, while the ceiling is plastered to the collars.