Haughley Bushes

HAUGHLEY NEW STREET TM 010609

4/96 Haughley Bushes -

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House, formerly farmhouse; c.1700 with core of c.1560. 2 storeys and attics, 4 windows. Timber-framed and plastered; the ground storey walling along the front elevation is of painted red brick. Plaintiled roof with two axial chimneys of c.1700 red brick. Four plaintiled gabled dormers of c.1700; the windows have original wrought iron casements formerly with leaded glazing. C18 3-light casements, with segmental heads and transomes at ground storey only. Late C18 or early C19 entrance doorway: a 6-panelled door (the upper panels glazed), and flat canopy on fretted brackets. In the hall is a fully exposed ceiling of heavy and richly moulded joists of about 1560, the joists with roll and scotia mouldings, the main beams with an ogee. The front wall may originally have been jettied at this section. Some other framing at the centre of the house is probably of C16 date, but remodelling and reconstruction included extensions to right and left in plain but substantial late C17 carpentry. 2-tier butt-purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TM0108960930