The Rampant Horse Inn

NEEDHAM MARKET STATION ROAD TM 0954

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• II

Inn, built in 2 stages in mid C16, with a rear stable range added c.1600. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and pebble-dashed. Plaintiled roof with axial and rear chimneys of red brick. C19 sash windows, most having small panes. A pair of mid C19 splayed bays to Station Road have large-pane sashes. C19 6- panelled entrance door, the upper 4 panels glazed; a pentice on brackets above. An unused entrance door to Coddenham Road has a moulded architrave and cornice of late C18 or early C19. The main frontage was originally to Coddenham Road. To left is an early C16 2-cell building, formerly long-wall jettied to the street; the hall has roll-moulded joists and main beams, the service cell to left unmoulded exposed framing. Plain crownpost roof. To right is a later C16 2-cell building also formerly jettied towards the street, with clasped-purlin roof. A rear range of stabling with loft above was added c.1600; exposed arch-braced studwork, the roof partly renewed in C19; mainly weatherboarded, the plaintiled roof mainly replaced with corrugated iron.

Listing NGR: TM0903654806