Hawksmill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. A N/A House.

Hawksmill Cottage

WRENN ID
sombre-doorway-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Country
England
Date first listed
19 May 1986
Type
House
Period
N/A
Source
Historic England listing

Description

NEEDHAM MARKET HAWKSMILL STREET TM 0855

3/61 No.29, (Hawksmill Cottage) -

  • II

House, early C16 with fragmentary C15 rear wing. 2 storeys, 2 windows. Timber-framed and plastered, the upper floor originally long-wall jettied towards the street. Concrete tiled roof. C20 small-pane casements and panelled entrance door. A high-quality 2-cell house which retains the altered rear bays of a C15 cross-wing. In the hall is a wide original fireplace with a fine lintel, embattled and rib-moulded, and with unusually well-carved brattishing; sunk panels of painted brick above. Good close-studwork with long arch - and tension-bracing. Complete crownpost roof, the open truss having a square unbraced crownpost. The rear wall has arch-braced principal posts without intermediate studwork, indicating a possible former aisle on the site of the present C20 extension. The C15 wing has massive 1st floor joists, tension-braced studwork and a blocked ovolo-moulded mullioned window intruded in c.1600.

Listing NGR: TM0878555341

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