93, High Street

NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (WEST) TM 0855

3/91 No.93

9.12.55

• II*

House. Circa 1600 with early C18 remodelling. Gault brick, with dressings, block quoins and band at 1st floor all in red brick, encasing a timber-framed core. Plaintiled roof with slating at the eaves; C19 flat-roofed sash-window dormers. An internal end chimney of red brick. 2 storeys and attics. 5 windows. Sashes with flat arches of gauged brick, flush frames and small-pane sashes of late C18 or early C19. The window over the entrance is a dummy; it has ogee carving to the soffit of its flat arch. Prominent early C18 entrance doorway; a heavily moulded broken pediment has a stool within it, formerly containing a bust. Fretted console brackets above sunk pilasters. A bolection-moulded architrave, and door with 6 fielded panels. Oblong fanlight with bullseye glass. In a rear wing is a fine well staircase of c.1700 with moulded handrails, and balusters partly of barley sugar form. (c.p. staircase at No.10 High Street). A parlour has full early C18 panelling with large sunk panels and deep moulded cornice. Other rooms have good contemporary panelled doors and fireplaces. A small rear wing has ovolo-moulded beams of c.1600, and another has fragmentary late-mediaeval framing. This house was the Vicarage for the nearby parish of Battisford in C18 and C19.

Listing NGR: TM0878255092