6, Church Street

No. 6 Church Street is a shop and house located on the east side of Church Street in Framlingham. It dates from the 16th century and early 17th century, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. The building has two storeys and attics, constructed from timber framing and roughcast render.

The structure consists of two distinct sections. The front range, which houses the shop, features a roof that has been raised to a shallower pitch and is now slated, with overhanging eaves. It has small-paned sash windows in flush frames on the attic and first floors, and large-paned shop windows facing Church Street and Double Street, supported by carved console brackets. The entrance door is set at an angle on the corner.

Inside the ground floor, there is an early 16th-century two-bay ceiling with heavy ogee-moulded cross-beams, with the principal transverse beam supported by small solid moulded brackets. However, much of this section has been altered in the Victorian period. The early 17th-century range on Double Street has a basic three-cell lobby-entrance plan, a plaintiled roof, and an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft, along with various 20th-century casement windows.

The ground floor features exposed main posts and ceilings, with flat-set joists and chamfered main beams. One original partition wall has been removed, creating a long two-bay room on the ground floor, while the room above, although now divided, originally had no partition. The ceiling is plastered and decorated with formalised Tudor roses around the edges, and four small panels with raised semi-circular patterns in the centre, which is notable as decorative plasterwork is rare in Framlingham. The roof structure consists of diminished principals, one row of clasped purlins with windbraces, and one row of unstepped butt purlins.