Elton House

NEEDHAM MARKET HAWKSMILL STREET TM 0855

3/65 No.2, (Elton House ) (Formerly listed as No 2 9.12.55 (Temperance Hotel))

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Shop and house. Roof of 1621 (as carved on purlin), but core possibly C16. Much remodelling in mid C19. 2 storeys, the range to High Street with attics. Timber-framed; the upper storey roughcast, the lower storey encased in C19 painted brick. Both ranges were formerly jettied towards the street on two sides at 1st floor level, the jetties meeting at posts at the corners of High Street, Hawksmill Street and King William Street. Plaintiled roofs with C19 undulating bargeboards and spike finial. Axial chimneys of red brick. Mainly mid C19 small-pane sashes. 4-panelled C19 entrance door to Elton House with oblong fanlight and a gabled canopy with undulating bargeboards. Shop windows and glazed entrance door of late C19 or early C20. Above the shop is a roof with two tiers of butt purlins and square cambered collars; one purlin has the well-carved date 1621, no doubt the date of construction. However, fragments of exposed carpentry elsewhere in the building suggest a possible C16 core.

Listing NGR: TM0873855233