Music House

TG 2308 SE KING STREET (east side) 24/423 26.2.54. Nos. 167 and 169 (Music House). - I Former house now educational institute. C12 onwards. Flint, Brick, Pantile roofs. King Street facade:- 2 storey with 3 storey end gable-ends. 5 irregularly spaced windows at 2nd floor. C20 door set into C12 door opening central to lett-hand gable-end. C20 door to its right. 2 large 6-light mullion and transom windows with pediments, centrally placed with 2 smaller 6-light mullion and transom windows above partly blocked to right-side. Sash windows and casements elsewhere. Pediment with cill missing above the 2 right-hand sash windows. Moulded stringcourse between the central windows. Interior:- C12 stone built undercroft beneath the left-side gable width which represents the extent of the original house. The undercroft has 2 compart- ments with a connecting door: the first is entered from the street and has roll-moulded and hollow chamfered ribs, the rear room has 2 bays of groin vaulting between flat-section transverse arches, and the remains of a spiral stair in the north-east corner. On the south external wall of this undercroft is the remains of a large respond with ricked base, the remainder of this phase of the building being destroued by the C15 brick-built 3-bay undercroft parallel to the street-line.

Listing NGR: TG2362808041