Dakons

TM 14 SW WASHBROOK WASHBROOK STREET 2/38 Dakons II House. First quarter of C16, and later. Built by a draper from Ipswich. Timber framed, encased in brick, the rear gable wall a brick replacement. Plaintile roofs. 2 storeys, 2½ cells of a presumably 3 cell original building. Front gable wall. Ground floor of c1700 mixed bond brickwork; the first floor and the return walls of later brickwork. 3-course brick band to front gable wall at first floor level. Boarded door under C20 porch. Two first floor casements under soldier arches, that to left a single 2 x 3 pane light, that to right of 2 similar lights. Right hand return. 5 similar ground floor casements of 2 lights, beneath brick labels, the heads at different heights, the second from left probably a later insertion the 4th bay apparently in a blocked doorway. Four first floor 2 x 3 paned horizontal sliding sashes and casements beneath soldier arches. External stack to rear gable. C20 additions to left return. Interior. Apparently 3½ or four uneven bays. Front cell has transverse beam with cavetto, roll and cavetto mouldings, the joists cavetto moulded with run out stops. Rear room, formerly divided in two, has partly single cavetto moulded joists, the end bay being plain. Rear stack is of early mixed bricks, reset. Slightly cranked arch brace to front at first floor. The remaining braces are removed. Roof replaced.

Listing NGR: TM1109342856