Blaize House

LAVENHAM CHURCH STREET 1. 5377 (south-east side) Nos 11 and 12 (Blaize House) TL 9149 50/518 23.1.58 II* GV 2. Now one tenement. A C15-C16 timber-framed and plastered building. Restored with exposed timber-framing on the front. Roof tiled. Nos 11 to 14 (consec) were once known as the Weaving Houses, where a master clothier lived and had his looms. The upper storey formerly had pargetted emblems of the wool trade, the mitre, fleur-de-lys and the spur-rowels. At the end of the C18 the buildings were used as a school. Two storeys. The upper storey is jettied on the whole front on exposed joists and curved brackets with moulded capitals and shafts. Three window range of leaded casements (restored). On the upper storey there is a restored mullioned window with Gothic arched lights. The doorway has a Tudor arched head with carved spandrels and there is an oriel bay on the ground storey with a moulded and embattled sill. There are gabled wings at the rear. The interior retains the screen passage of the original open hall and there is a fine crown post roof.

Listing NGR: TL9152649062