The Old Guildhall

TL 9273 - 9373 BARDWELL QUAKER LANE (NORTH SIDE)

5/36 The Old Guildhall 14.7.55 (Formerly listed as The Guildhall)

• II

Hall of the Guild of S.Peter, converted into 12 almshouses in C16, restored as 2 houses in early 1960's. Late C15. Timber-framed and plastered, with plaintiled roofs. The east-west range is gabled at the east end, hipped with a small gablet on the west. 2 storeys: L-shaped form. An internal chimney-stack to each range. Mid C20 casement windows with square-leaded panes, and C20 doors. 2 small late C17 plaster panels with floral designs reset in the outer wall of the east-west range above the door. The brickwork at the south side of the chimney-stack was left exposed following restoration. The interior of the north-south range has very heavy studding and 2 plain crown-post trusses with arched braces, and seems to have been built as a 3-bay open hall (cf. the hall arrangement at Church House, Hawstead, another late C15 guildhall). On a later cross-wall inside at the south end, a large plaster panel in high relief of c.1600, showing Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac, set into a surround of strapwork and scrolls.

Listing NGR: TL9416073622