The Guildhall

In the entry for:

TM 26 SE FRAMLINGHAM MARKET HILL

4/110 No. 34 (The Mansion House)

25.10.51

GV II*

The address shall be amended to read: MARKET HILL

No. 34 (The Guildhall)

TM 26 SE FRAMLINGHAM MARKET HILL

4/110 No.34 (The Mansion House) 25.10.51

GV II*

House, now offices and shop premises. Late C16 core; built on the site of the hall of the Guild of St. Mary by Simon Pulham, who acquired the site with the old building on it in 1564. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed; faced in red mathematical tiles; plaintiled roof. 9 bays: 3:3:3, with the centre breaking forward slightly. Parapet, with sections of turned balusters in front of the dormer windows and the central break, and a plastered band below. 3 dormers with small-paned sash windows and moulded pediments, the 2 outer triangular, the central segmental. 7 large-paned sash windows in flush frames to the first floor with gauged brick heads and keystones. To each side of the central break a blank window with ornate surround: enriched eared architrave and open triangular pediment. On the ground floor, the sash windows have been replaced along the western 2/3rd of the front by 2 mid-C19 shop entrances and 3 large canted shop windows which project from the face of the building. The eastern 1/3rd of the front (separately occupied by Messrs Turner & Ellerby), has an entrance door up steps, and brickwork refacing to the ground floor. This is the only accessible part of the building, the remainder being unoccupied. It contains a small room on the ground floor, with raised fielded panelling. A dog-leg stair has a plain handrail and metal twist balusters. On the first floor, a fine panelled room in the rear wing with double bolection-moulded panels and window-shutters. In the bottom of the shutters are 2 secret drawers. The roof over the rear range has side purlins; the remainder plastered. In the panelled ground-floor room and the room above it are semi-domed and semi-circular recessed cupboards set into the walls, one made to revolve, and both with painted decoration and figures.

Listing NGR: TM2848363460