Valley House

NEEDHAM MARKET HAWKSMILL STREET TM 05 NE

1/62 Valley House

9.12.55 II

House, mid C18 with core of c.1600. Red brick, with bands of gauged brick at 1st and 2nd floors. Hipped slated roof with axial chimney of red brick. 3 storeys, 5 windows. Small-pane sashes with flat arches of gauged brick. Pair of entrance doors each with 3 fielded panels. Semi-circular fanlight with radiating bars, and a pair of Roman Doric pilasters supporting a broken entablature and shallow pediment. A good mid C18 staircase rises through 3 storeys and has console brackets at each tread, turned balusters and moulded handrails. Small single-storey bays of red brick with sashes were added to left and right gables in late C19, and the 2nd storey walls raised and roof remodelled. At the rear is an earlier 3-bay timber-framed hall range, with 3- bay parlour cross-wing of c.1600. A fragment of hall window has a hollow- chamfered square mullion, suggesting a possible earlier C16 core. The parlour has main beams channelled and with ovolo mouldings in 2 orders. Good wind- braced clasped-purlin roof over the parlour wing. The rear ranges were largely encased in red brick in C18 and C19.

Listing NGR: TM0878655449