Doctor'S Surgery

NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (WEST) TM 0854

3/77 Nos.33 and 35 (Doctor's Surgery) 9.12.55 II

Surgery, built mid C16 as a 3 cell house. 2 storeys. 3 windows. Timber- framed with early C19 roughcast plaster and broad plaster bands around openings. Plaintiled roof, hipped at the right-hand end, with axial chimney of red brick. To right are 6-light C19 casements with transomes. Other windows are mid C19 large-pane sashes. A bay shop window to left of c.1800 has a flat leaded roof with modillioned cornice; this continues over the 6- panelled door adjacent. Good main entrance doorway also of c.1800. 6- panelled door, the lower panels fielded and the upper pair glazed. Moulded and eared architrave and entablature with moulded pediment. The main framing members are exposed and heavy, with broad chamfers. One of a pair of 4- centred arched service doorways survives. Complete crownpost roof; the posts at the closed trusses have plank braces, but the square crownposts at the open trusses are completely unbraced. In the hall area is some wainscotting of c.1600.

Listing NGR: TM0894254873