27, Castle Street

This is an early 17th-century house on Castle Street in Framlingham. It is a two-story and attic timber-framed building with roughcast rendering and a single Roman tile roof. The house has an internal chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft. The windows include a three-light casement and a two-light casement. There are two doors: one with six raised fielded panels, and another with bolection mouldings, small pilasters, and an entablature. The internal frame is complete, showing a two-cell internal chimney plan, likely originally with a lobby entrance. The house has four bays, including a chimney bay. The timber framing exhibits widely-spaced studding with a middle rail and long arched braces at the corners. The main beams and joists have a small chamfer and are set flat. The roof is a clasped purlin roof with diminished principals, windbraces, and additional intermediate collars between the trusses, in four irregularly spaced bays that correspond to the bays of the frame. An unusual carved lintel, featuring pyramid and running-leaf decoration, is present above one upper fireplace.