88 And 90, High Street

NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (EAST) TM 0855

3/120 Nos.88 and 90

9.12.55

• II

Shop and house, early or mid C16 with early C19 alterations. 3-cell cross- passage entrance plan. 2 storeys. Timber-framed, encased at front in early C19 gault brick, plastered at rear. The first floor was formerly long-wall jettied towards the High Street. Slated roof, the rear slope and wing are plaintiled. Axial chimney of gault brick. C19 sashes with flat arches of gauged brick, flush frames and small panes. Two C19 entrance doors (the house was subdivided in C19 and later reunited): 4 beaded fielded panels, broad reeded architraves with paterae, and cornice. C19 shop windows and glazed door. The present butcher's shop occupies the service cell, formerly divided by a close-studded partition; on this prominent site, a shop may have been here from the outset. Heavy unmoulded framing exposed internally, including some interesting reused members in hall and parlour. A short rear wing adjacent to Bridge Street is original with coupled-rafter roof, but altered and extended C17. Good corner cupboards of late C18/early C19.

Listing NGR: TM0880255148