Red House

EYE

TM1473 LAMBSETH STREET 585-1/7/101 (West side) 20/10/71 Nos.1 AND 1B Red House (Formerly Listed as: LAMBSETH STREET (West side) No.1 Red House)

GV II

House, now 2 houses, formerly house and surgery. Plastered and whitewashed timber-framed rear wing c1600, early C19 red brick front range to street. Composition roof to front, black-glazed pantiles to rear wing. EXTERIOR: facade of 2 storeys cut down from 3 storeys mid C20. 8-window range. 6-panelled and fielded door in sixth bay (from left) within plain timber doorcase with hood on brackets. Door reached by double flight of steps with cast-iron railings. The window on both floors immediately right of door is blind, with painted glazing bars. Fenestration otherwise of 6/6 unhorned sashes beneath flat skewback arches of herringbone gault brick. Flat roof with two truncated stacks. Attached to south gable is a single-storey late C19 extension (No.1B, formerly surgery) lit through three 2/2 horned sashes and entered through a 4-panelled door reached by flight of steps with cast-iron railings. Gabled 2-storey rear wing fitted with mixed C19 and C20 casements. Internal gable-end stack to west. INTERIOR: wide entrance hall with boxed bridging beams. Room to north with large-framed C19 dado panelling. South room with C20 fireplace on fluted Ionic columns. Stick-baluster staircase with ramped handrail. Rear wing with clasped purlin roof. No.1A, the former stables, is not included. (Paine C: The History of Eye: Diss: 1993-: 50).

Listing NGR: TM1448973906