11, Hawksmill Street

NEEDHAM MARKET HAWKSMILL STREET TM 0855 No.11 (part) 3/57

9.12.55 II

A substantial fragment of a Wealden house of late C15 or early C16, altered later in C16. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered on a painted brick plinth; the upper floor is long-wall jettied towards the street (a late C16 alteration). Plaintiled roof with internal end chimney of red brick. Mid C19 sash windows to ground storey, 3-light leaded casements of C18/early C19 at upper storey. C19 6-panelled entrance door, the upper panels glazed. Undisturbed smoke-encrusted roof; the open truss has a plain square crown- post, the cambered tie-beam formerly having had massive arch-braces. The left-hand bay has been truncated, and a probably storeyed cell to left also demolished. In late C16 the front wall was rebuilt, to include an inserted jettied upper floor. In C19 this was a part of The Queens Head Inn, together with Nos.13 and 15 Hawksmill Street.

Listing NGR: TM0875755294