Chilton House And Mulbra House

TM 0262 8/111 09/12/55

HAUGHLEY OLD STREET (SOUTH SIDE) No.32 Chilton House and No.34 Mulbra House (formerly listed as Chilton House (pair))

GV II

Two houses, built as one in late C16; possible earlier core. 3-cell plan with lobby entrance. 5 windows. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Plaintiled roof with a detilled wooden eaves cornice. An axial chimney, the shaft rebuilt in mid C20 red brick. 3 early C18 small pane sashes with thick glazing bars at ground storey , those at No.32 restored in C20. Various C18, C19 and C20 casements at 1st storey. Two good early C18 doorways with Gibbs surrounds, pulvinated friezes and pediments, entrance doors with 6 fielded panels. Late C16 queenpost roof surviving in part; most of the roof was rebuilt in pine in C18. Mulbra House has some massive unchamfered floor joists of C16 type; framing otherwise mainly concealed. This building is believed to have been a Town-house in C18, and previously a guildhall. However, its construction appears to post-date the dissolution of the guilds in 1545.

Listing NGR: TM0277462121