8 And 9, Church Street

A house, originally dating back to the 14th century, was later altered in the late 16th century and again in the mid-19th century, and is now divided into two dwellings at 8 and 9 Church Street. The building has a hall range and a cross-wing plan, with later extensions. The hall range (number 8) was raised and faced with white brick in the mid-19th century, featuring a slate roof with a bracketed cornice. The cross-wing is plastered with comb-pargetted panels along the side walls and has a plaintiled roof. Number 8 has a two-window front on the top storey, with 2-light casements featuring horizontal bars on the top lights; large-paned sash windows to the first storey; a canted bay to the ground storey, a sash window, and a six-panelled door with raised fielded panels, all sheltered by a cast iron bracketed hood. Numerous sash windows and casements are present on the cross-wing, with all windows having cast iron heads and ornate brackets.

The interior is noteworthy, containing fragments of the oldest timber framing in Framlingham. Walls on the first floor, one in the cross-wing and the corresponding wall in the hall range, retain remains of multiple bracing from the early 14th century. The cross-wing originally had a crown-post roof, but only the tie-beam of the truss remains. The hall range was largely rebuilt in the late 16th century, including wall-heightening and a roof structure with a row of butt purlins and a row of clasped purlins with windbraces, along with evidence of an original dormer and a former attic floor; much of this original roof structure is visible in the present attic room. The house was further heightened when the 19th-century front was added. On the ground floor of number 8, a stud partition with evidence of two doorways suggests a change in the house's layout during the 16th-century alterations. Both the main range and cross-wing have been extended at various times, including a rear wing originally of 1½ storeys, which has also been heightened.