Sycamores

DEBENHAM HIGH STREET (east side) TM 16 SE 6/89 No.27 (Sycamores) (formerly listed as 9.12.55 Sycamores) GV II*

House, incorporating at rear the former Buck inn (to south) and a theatrical grandstand (to north). C18 front with C16 and early C17 work to rear. C19 alterations and additions. Timber framed, pebbledash-rendered facade. Paired mutule eaves cornice. Roof slated to front and plaintiled to rear. Rear wings are roughcast-rendered and plaintiled. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay facade. Sash windows with glazing bars. Doric doorway with fluted pilasters, entablature with triglyphs and mutule cornice. 6-panel raised and fielded door, oblong overlight. Small C19 additions set back to left. At the rear, several square-leaded casement windows, probably 19. Interior. Front block has a well stair with stick balusters, wreathed mahogany handrail and shaped tread-ends. Former Buck inn range to rear has C16 ground floor ceiling beams with wide chamfers. The grandstand was an early C17 3-bay structure, the west bay now lost. The upper floor was open-sided, with a handrail at about mid- height; there are turned balusters to the south and east (the latter incomplete) and plain balustrading to the north. The main posts to the south are ovolo-moulded. Evidence for an axial partition on both floors. The ground floor may also have been open but this and the original roof have been lost. A very rare and possibly unique survival of a grandstand associated with innyard entertainment, hence Grade II*. Referred to as 'the gallery' in early C18. For drawings and photographs, see Mr T. Easton, Bedfield Hall.

Listing NGR: TM1740063256