14, Earsham Street

1. 924 FARSHAM STREET (North Side) -------------- No 14 TM 3389 1/35 9.5.49.

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1. Early C17, reputed to have been built in 1620. 3 storey. Front C19 Suffolk yellow brick, low parapet. Pantiles. 3 window at 1st floor with central glazing bars only. 6-panel door, panelled reveals, enriched consoles, key and bedmould remains of original entablature. Mid C19 porch with slender columns, entablature and cast iron ornament. Interior; panelled room, right, with fluted pilasters and cornice. In 1933, 35 horses skulls found fixed in rows between the joists of the floor of this room, said to be music room, to improve acoustics. (No 16, adjoining originally part of this room; similar skulls found under corresponding room on opposite side of the house). Original staircase gone and many other features. Panelled room used as hairdressing saloon. Nos 14 and 16 are 2 of the few buildings which survived the fire of 1688.

Nos 2 to 40 (even) form group

Listing NGR: TM3354889862