10 And 12, High Street

NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (EAST) TM 0854 and 0954

3/104 Nos. 10 and 12 (formerly listed as The Waggon and 9.12.55 Horses and No.10)

• II

Two houses. Built as one in late C16; formerly and perhaps originally the Waggon and Horses Inn, until mid C20. Alterations of c.1700 and c.1800. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Plaintiled roof with C19 flat-roofed casement dormers. Small-pane sashes of late C18 or early C19 at 1st storey. No.12 has large C19 windows with pilasters and a continuous moulded cornice above. No.10 has a C19 tripartite sash window. No.12 has the main entrance door, with 6 panels (the upper panels glazed), recessed within panelled reveals; architrave and moulded cornice with pulvinated frieze of late C18 type. No.10 has a similar entrance doorway with simpler architrave, lacking a cornice. No.12 has late C16 roll-moulded 1st floor beams with channelled soffits. A narrow rear wing has a good staircase of c.1700: Turned balusters of which the upper half are barley-sugar twisted, moulded handrail and newel finials of C17 form. (Cp. No.93 High Street) The whole roof was rebuilt with butt-purlins c.1700. A wrought iron bracket, formerly suspending the Inn Sign, is cantilevered from beneath the eaves.

Listing NGR: TM0899954836