High House

BAWDSEY FERRY ROAD TM 33 NW (West Side) 12/19 16/3/66 High House II House. C17 and late C18. Yellow Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings and C20 pantile roof. Two and 2 1/2 storeys L-shaped plan, the rear wing being older, and having a baffle-entry 2-cell plan. Entrance Front: 5 bays symmetrically disposed. Central ground floor doorway with classical surround having Ionic pilasters to the sides with moulded capitals and bases and an open pediment with mutules. Six-panel door with 2 flush lower panels, the upper 4 being raised and fielded. Fanlight above with decorative tracery of swags. To either side are sash windows of 3 x 9 panes with thin glazing bars, painted stone sills and flat-arched heads. five similar windows to first floor level. Five further, similar windows, though of 4 x 2 panes, to the second floor. The right hand side has a central projecting gable chimney-stack with 3 flues. First and second floor windows to left of this, similar to those on the entrance front. To right of the chimney are two similar, blocked openings. Extending to right is the rear wing which is of red Flemish bond brick with C20 metal-framed casement windows being a 4-light and two 3-light ground floor windows and three 3-light windows to the first floor, and three 2-light gabled dormers to the attic. Ridge chimney to right of centre. Left hand side: blank gable end to early C19 portion. The C17 portion is obscured by C19 and C20 additions running along the whole of its side.

Interior: The rear wing has chamfered ceiling beams with ogee end stops to both floors, jowled wall posts to the upper floor and exposed studding with through braces. Massive chimney-breast to ground floor with baffle-entry at one side and staircase at other. C17 plank doors to first floor with moulded cross-battens and iron door furniture. Winder staircase to the attics.

Listing NGR: TM3479439762