The Old Guildhall Tudor Cottages

SCHOOL STREET 1. 5377 (West Side) Stoke-by-Nayland The Old Guildhall (Tudor Cottages) TL 9836 24/878 10.l.53. II* GV

1. A fine C16 and C17 timber-framed building with exposed timber-framing and plaster infil. 2 storeys. The upper storey is jettied on the whole of the east front and north side on exposed joists, with curved brackets and moulded shafts with capitals, and a moulded bressummer. At the north-west corner there is a massive corner post and bracket. The upper storey is divided into 4 bays and the ground storey is divided into 11 bays by moulded shafts with capitals. 4 window range, casements with moulded mullions and lattice leaded lights. There is the original 4-centred arched doorhead of a former doorway. The house was restored at the beginning of the C20 and divided into tenements. The present doorways, approached by steps, are boarded, with fillets. Roofs tiled, with a fine central chimney stack with 6 octagonal shafts with moulded bases (rebuilt at the top) on a rectangular base (dated 1619).

Listing NGR: TL9856536258