41 And 42, High Street

LOWESTOFT

TM5593NW HIGH STREET 914-1/8/24 (East side) 03/10/77 Nos.41 AND 42

GV II

Pair of houses and shops, now 2 shops and 4 flats. Late C14, re-built C17, re-built again mid C19, altered C20. Brick. Asbestos slate and natural slate roofs. Double-pile plan. 3 storeys in 4 window bays. 2 late C20 ground-floor shop fronts. 4 top-hung late C20 casements to each of upper 2 floors, those to No.41 with rendered skewback arches. gabled roof with internal gable-end stacks. The rear pile is similar. Two 2-storey cross wings receded east from the rear: C20 details. INTERIOR. C20 details throughout except for the late C14 cellar under No.41. Limewashed brick. 2 compartments separated by a wide double-chamfered 4-centred brick arch. The south compartment has a flight of brick steps leading to the street, now blocked. The east and west walls are punctuated by 4-centred chamfered brick arches leading to small recessed chambers with barrel vaults. Each recess arch has an engaged circular respond with polygonal capitals. A forest of C20 brick piers supports the roof, from which the vault has been removed. The north compartment has a quadripartite brick vault with hollow-chamfered ribs on corbels. There are no wall niches or responds. In the north-east corner rises a brick winder staircase with moulded circular newel bricks. It is blocked at ceiling level.

Listing NGR: TM5515993893