Numbers 5 And 6 (Harwell House) With Attached Outbuilding

BOTESDALE MARKET PLACE (SOUTH EAST TM 0475 SIDE) 6/14 Nos. 5 and 6 (Harwell - House) with attached Outbuilding GV II House, latterly 3 dwellings and now 2. Early C18, altered and extended mid C19. Red brick, Flemish bond with vitrified headers. Plastered timber frame to rear. Black glazed pantiled roof with plaintiles to rear. 3 cell cross entry plan with service end to left. 2 storeys. Front largely rebuilt in C19. To left of centre in cross entry position a recessed architraved 6 panelled door, a half glazed door to far right, a blocked door to left. 4 ground floor and 3 first floor recessed single glazing bar sashes. All openings have cambered heads. Offset plinth, rendered plat band, boxed eaves. Stepped kneelers to coped gable end parapets. Internal stacks to rear, axial to right of centre and cross axial to left. Left gable end has 2 plat bands, blocked openings. To rear a gable behind service bay, to centre a 4 panelled door and a C19 slate roofed lean-to addition for stairs, to right a 2-light box dormer. Interior: diagonally set corner fireplaces, indented ogee stop chamfered binding beams. Attached to rear left is a late C16 or early C17 outbuilding, formerly stabling to the Greyhound Public House (q.v.). Timber frame, rendered and weatherboarded, steeply pitched corrugated sheet roof, 2 bays, originally longer; a door towards rear and an upper 18 pane casement, close studding with mid-rail, clasped purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TM0473775799