The Meadlands Public House is a Grade II* listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1972. A Medieval Public house.
The Meadlands Public House
- WRENN ID
- standing-portal-sparrow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1972
- Type
- Public house
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Meadlands Public House, Needham Road, Stowmarket
- OS grid reference
- TM 057 577
- Coordinates
- 52.17943, 1.00743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Meadlands Public House is a late 15th-century hall house that was floored in the 17th century and later converted into three houses before becoming a public house between 1980 and 1981, during which it was completely restored. The building features a rendered and colourwashed timber frame beneath a pantiled roof and stands two storeys tall. The southeast front has a late 20th-century timber gabled porch positioned to the right of the center. There are two 2-light casements from 1981 to the left of the porch and one to the right, with three casements on the first floor. The gabled roof includes a ridge stack above the door, creating a late 20th-century lobby-entrance layout.
Inside, the structure showcases close-studded timber framing with jowled principal studs and chamfered bridging beams. A stack was inserted in the 17th century and rebuilt in 1981. The northeast room features a fireplace with a chamfered bressummer, while the southwest room has a fireplace with a wider bressummer. In the southwest room, there are remnants of a screen with two doorways leading to service rooms, accessed through 4-centred arches. One arch remains intact, while the other shows only mortices. The opposing doors to the screens passage are defined, with the southern door being a blocked 4-centred arch and the northern door being an opening with mortices for a 4-centred arch. The first-floor frame includes arched wall braces. Above the area of the hall southwest of the stack is a 3-bay crown post roof supported by two free-standing octagonal posts carrying a crown purlin on arched braces, with no braces to the collars. Additionally, there are remains of a 3-light diamond mullioned window in the southeast room.
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