Tudor Cottage Tudor House

BOTESDALE MARKET PLACE (SOUTH EAST TM 0475 SIDE) 6/12 Tudor House and Tudor 29.7.55 Cottage (formerly listed as Tudor House and Premises adjoining Tudor House) GV II Two dwellings with a shop, originally possibly shops with a house added. C16, extended early C17, altered early C18, C19 and C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched pantiled roofs. 6 bay, 4 cell apparently unheated main range with taller 2 bay lobby entry house added to left. All 2 storeys with attic in addition. C16 range has 4 windows with entrances between each pair. Ground floor: to left a part glazed and boarded architraved door, an architraved sash and a 3-light glazing bar casement; to right a 3 panelled door, an early C19 reeded doorcase with lozenges in frieze, 16 pane architraved sashes. First floor 2-light glazing bar casements. C17 addition has entrance to right with an early C18 6 raised panelled door, architrave, good acanthus console brackets to dentilled hood, 3:9 and 3:6 pane architraved sashes, ground floor hoodboards, boxed eaves, ridge stack to right. Left end has brick to ground floor and an attic light. To rear lean-to additions and to right a flint and brick outbuilding with C16 origins, arched bracing in front wall, a C19 stack. Interior: frame largely concealed and partially altered, roughly central in main range is part of an orignal internal doorway retaining a chamfered 4-centred arched spandrel, stop chamfered binding beams and traces of close studding, cranked arched braces to cambered tie beams, a reverse curved arched brace in walling. C17 build has an early C19 fireplace, a chamfered axial binding beam, reverse curved arched braces in walling, side purlin roof originally with a gable to front. An unusual building, original plan and function are obscure.

Listing NGR: TM0476975826