32, 34 AND 36, OLD MARKET STREET

MENDLESHAM OLD MARKET STREET TM 16 NW 7/66 Nos. 32, 34 & 36 -

GV II Originally one house, later converted into 4 dwellings, now 3. C15 core with C16 alterations and major rebuilding of mid C17. A 3-cell main range with slightly lower in-line addition to right. Timber framed and rendered, the ground floor of the facade faced in red brick. Roof of main range has concrete pantiles to front, the rear slope and the right hand addition roofed with C20 patent clay tiles. 2 storeys and attic. Mid C20 small-paned casement windows. 4 doors, No.36 retaining an old plank door, the rest C20. One gabled dormer. Internal stack with axial shaft of narrow brick. Gable stacks with rendered external shafts. Interior. No.36 comprises hall and service cells of original house. C15 work includes 2 rear wallposts with C17 upper sections scarfed on; one rear wallpost is buttress-shafted and carried the open truss. Service partition, perhaps C15, has evidence for central arched doorways. Hall has fine C16 inserted ceiling with ogee-moulded cross- beams and hollow-chamfered joists with run-out stops. Remains of one C16 moulded wallpost. Fireplace rebuilt, retaining good C16 lintol. C17 ceiling in service end re-uses some heavy C15 joists. Much of studding is mid C17, together with upper ceilings and roof. Most of timbers in No.34 said to be concealed; there is a mid C17 ground floor ceiling with small square joists. Interior of No.32 not examined.

Listing NGR: TM1036165828