Minsmere House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1955. House, shop. 1 related planning application.

Minsmere House

WRENN ID
watchful-frieze-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1955
Type
House, shop
Source
Historic England listing

Description

DEBENHAM HIGH STREET (east side) TM 16 SE 6/85 No.15A (Minsmere House) 9.12.55 (formerly listed as Premises adjoining The Recess on N. side; Premises 15 yds SE of Oak House)

GV II

House and shop. C16, in 2 phases. Timber framed; plastered upper floor with remains of old plaster panels. Ground floor underbuilt in colourwashed brick. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys. 3 shopfronts under continuous fascia: large-paned shop windows, semi-glazed panelled doors. Upper floor has 4 sash windows with glazing bars and a casement window to left. At extreme right is a carriage entrance with boarded doors. Internal stack, set forward of the roof ridge. Interior. 2 bays to left have some regular heavy studding; closely-spaced plain joists in ceiling of ground floor with evidence for former jetty to street. Heavy arched braces to central tie beam. To right a wider range, probably older, contemporary with carriage entrance. Some exposed framing. Original structure of carriage entrance largely missing, apparently as the result of a fire. Remains of a plain crown-post roof. Roof over left section not examined.

Listing NGR: TM1738363313

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