H C Addison And Son

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TL 9762 5/139

WOOLPIT THE STREET Addison House

(Formerly listed as GREEN HILL H C Addison & Son, previously listed as Premises opposite the Swan Hotel)

15.11.54

GV II

Shop and dwelling at time of listing. Early C16. Two storeys. Three windows. Three-cell plan, originally with cross-entry and later converted to lobby entrance. Timber-framed and plastered; the first floor is long-wall jettied towards the street. Some areas of early plaster. Plaintiled roof. An axial C17/C18 chimney of red brick. Three-light C19 casements with transomes: a pair of bay shop windows beneath the jetty, flanking the entrance. C19 six-panelled door, the upper four panels glazed. A second entrance door similar but with four panels; and a third with a good late C16 or early C17 moulded plank door. All three cells at ground storey have double-ogee moulded ceiling joists. A cross-entry doorway with four-centred arched head, in rear wall. Plain C16 crownpost roof, altered later with clasped purlins. The right hand cell appears to be a late C16 rebuilding or extension. To left is a lower single-cell extension of C16 or C17.

Listing NGR: TL9737662434