50, High Street

NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (EAST) TM 0854 and 0855

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• II

Shop with dwelling above and to rear. Early C16 with later C16 wing to rear. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and plastered; the upper floor was formerly jettied along the street frontage. Slated roof. At 1st storey are mid C19 sashes and a long 3-part window, each part having twin segmental- headed lights. At ground storey is a pair of large-pane shop windows and a glazed pair of panelled entrance doors, all of c.1980. To left is a 2-bay hall with part of a service room doorway which has ogee-moulded jambs and evidence for an arched head. The twin service rooms to right have been united with a further small room, perhaps originally a shop, at the extreme right. At 1st storey was originally a long room, perhaps a workshop, with a small chamber over the hall. Well-exposed framing throughout 1st storey. Now concealed by the shop front is a moulded bressumer supported on heavy joist- ends. A narrow rear wing was added in later C16 with a long-wall jetty along the south side.

Listing NGR: TM0888854997