27, Hawksmill Street

This is an early 16th-century house with alterations from the early 19th century, located in Hawksmill Street, Needham Market. It is a two-storey, two-window building. The upper storey is timber-framed and has a pebble-dashed finish; the lower storey is red brick. The original upper storey was long-wall jettied towards the street. The roof is covered in plain tiles and has a rear chimney made of red brick. The windows are 19th-century casements with transoms; those on the ground floor have flat-arched heads made of gauged brick. The entrance is a 19th-century boarded door. Originally, this single-cell building was added to a pre-existing structure at No. 29 Hawksmill Street, becoming a separate tenement in the 19th century. The ground floor room has a ceiling with roll-moulded joists and embattled main beams. A girth from beneath the front wall jetty, also embattled, was reused in a 19th-century alteration to the gable wall. A blocked doorway into No. 29 has a three-centred arched head, and a further blind arch is located above it. The roof is a plain crown-post roof with two-way bracing. A large, tall fireplace with a cambered lintel was added against the rear wall in the late 16th or 17th century.