82, 84 AND 86, HIGH STREET

SOUTHWOLD

TM5076 HIGH STREET 588-1/7/63 (North East side) 22/11/71 Nos.82, 84 AND 86 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (East side) No.82)

GV II

House, converted later to three houses; now two shops. Early C17; rear extensions added and subdivided in early C19; converted to shops in early C20 with one early C20 shop front. Timber frame faced with rendered brick, whitewashed at front; black-glazed pantile roofs with brick stack at rear of cross wing. L-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: main range of single storey with dormer attic, 2 bays: to left, cross wing gable is 2 storeyed with attic. Main range has C20 plate glass shop display windows and off-centre door, under catslide roof: two dormer are fitted with 2/2 horned sash windows. Cross wing has canted plate glass bay window to ground floor, C20 plate-glass display window right and a half-glazed C19 door further right. On first floor, tripartite sash with 0/0, 2/2, 0/0 horned glazing bars. To attic, one 4/4 horned sash beneath plaque bearing initials T M (for Thomas Moore) and date 1662. Shouldered gable with tie irons. Rear: cross wing gable projects to right: to left, single-storey gabled extension, further left 2-storey extension. Original cross wing obscured by later accretions; central extension has top-hung window to left of plain door; left extension has 3/3 sashes on both floors. INTERIOR: cross wing has chamfered bridging and spine beams with jewel stops. Partially blocked fireplace in east wall of rear room. C19 winder staircase. C17 rendered brick first-floor fireplace. Roof of commons only. Main range has suspended ceiling to ground floor, but ceiling of former first floor visible above: sunk-quadrant-moulded bridging beams with jewel stops. Early C17 roof visible only from No.82: undiminished principals, collars and clasped purlins. Remainder of roof replaced late C17: principals, 2 tiers butt purlins and collars. (Bottomley A & Hutchinson J: Discovering Southwold: Southwold: 1988-: 27).

Listing NGR: TM5073876221