Number 9 Dolphin House And Numbers 11-15

MENDLESHAM FRONT STREET (south side) TM 16 NW 7/46 No.9 (Dolphin House) & 29.7.55 Nos. 11-15 (odd) (formerly _ listed as Elm House, 3 houses adjoining Elm House)

GV II Originally one or 2 dwellings, now 4. A long C16 range fronting the street with early C17 2-cell cross-wing projecting to left. Timber framed and plastered; main range has much old panelled plasterwork with pargetted infilling. Plaintiled roof. Original carved console brackets at foot of gable of wing. 2 storeys, attics in cross-wing. Main range is jettied to street. Various casement windows, some old, 2 at first floor with diamond and square-leaded panes. Nos. 11 and 13 have mainly mid C20 windows, No.ll with a canted ground floor bay. Gable end of wing (No.9) has 6-panel raised and fielded door and blocked narrow segmental fanlight; 2 flanking sash windows with glazing bars. Over the whole is a frieze and dentil cornice, bracketed each side of the doorway. Boarded door to No.11, C16-C17 plank door to No.13, plank door to No.15. Main range has 2 internal stacks with rendered shafts, the cross-wing an internal stack with red brick shaft. Interior. Good intact cross-wing: concealed studding and joists, ovolo floorbeams in ceilings of lower rooms, roof with 2 tiers of butt purlins and one-way curved wind bracing. Oak newel stair: original doors to upper flight and to cupboard under lower flight. Roof over left end of main range (part of No.9) is a later reconstruction. Interiors of Nos.11-15 not examined.

Listing NGR: TM1046965792