Dentist'S Surgery And Number 129 High Street (Barclays Bank)

NEEDHAM MARKET BARRETT'S LANE TM 0855

3/48 Dentist's Surgery and No.129 High Street 9.12.55 (Barclays Bank) (Formerly listed under High Street) - II

Surgery, with bank at side and offices above. Built early or mid C16 as a 3- cell house, with a parlour cross-wing at the corner of High Street. Alterations of mid C18 and mid C19. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Both the hall range and the cross-wing to right are jettied towards Barrett's Lane. The service range to left has ground storey walling of C18 red brick, retaining the jettied upper floor. Plaintiled roofs with internal chimneys of red brick, and a gabled casement dormer. Various small- pane sashes on casements of C19 and C20. The 3-window elevation to the High Street was encased in gault brick (now painted) in C19. Tripartite sashes, those at 1st storey with small panes; painted lintels on console brackets. Central C19 entrance door with 6 fielded panels. The 1st storey has some mid/late C18 joinery including an interesting dispensary; Samuel Alexander established a bank at No.107 High Street in 1744 and moved to this address in 1756, and was perhaps responsible for this feature. The house was occupied in early C18 by the Rev. Robert Uvedale, Rector of Barking. He is believed to have introduced the Cedar of Lebanon into England.

Listing NGR: TM0872355207