Bank House

TM 07 SW WALSHAM LE WILLOWS THE STREET (SOUTH SIDE)

3/64 Bank House

GV II

House, formerly divided into 2. Later C16, with possible older core. Timber- framed and roughcast-rendered; single roman tiles. 1½ storeys; 3-cell form, not all of one date. An internal chimney-stack with a plain rebuilt red brick shaft, and another later stack on the left gable end. Plain bargeboards and spike finials to the gables. A lower brick extension beyond the right gable end. 2 gabled half-dormers, one upper window and 4 ground floor windows, all late C20 sash-type replacements. Entrance door with 4 flush panels within an open'timber porch, gabled, with plain bargeboards and spike finial. Interior: to the right of the internal stack, the end wall has very closely-spaced studding; main beam to ground floor room with large chamfer; reversed braces to the upper floor, blocked original windows, indications of a crown-post roof. To the left of the stack signs of possible roof-raising to an older core of the house: main cross-beams to the ground floor room with large chamfer and curved stops. A straight stair cut through at one end, and a partition wall of altered Jacobean square panelling, probably originally inserted to form a cross-passage. To the left of the entrance door, a later parlour replaces the former service area. Roof not examined.

Listing NGR: TM0035471270