C And C Fabrics, Saxon Furnishings, Antiques, And Brandon Motor Cycles

TL 7886 10/12

BRANDON HIGH STREET Nos. 47 & 49 (C & C Fabrics, Saxon Furnishings, Antiques, and Brandon Motor Cycles)

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4 shops, formerly house, known as London House. Early C16 with alterations of early C18 and late C19. 3-cell cross-passage entrance plan. 2 storeys. Timber-framed, encased at front in C19 gault brick. Pantiled roof with parapet gables of gault brick. Late C19 large-paned sash windows at 1st floor. No.47 has a pair of C20 shop windows with glazed entrance door between. No.49 has a late C19 shop front shared by Antiques and Brandon Motor Cycles with pilasters at either end and glazed entrance doors. The hall, now comprising Saxon Furnishings and Antiques, has heavily rib-moulded 1st floor members and part of a plank-and-muntin cross-passage screen (repositioned slightly to the right). A 1st floor room has carved oak decoration of late C16 (concealed by C20 ceiling): a depressed 4-centred arch across the room, with moulded drop finial, and applied brattishing which is continued (incomplete) as a cornice to divide the ceiling into 2 segments. At the rear is an early C18 extension, much altered C20, of 5 bays and 2 storeys. Gault brick with red brick dressings, dentil eaves and flat-arched openings both of finely gauged red brick. Hipped pantiled roof.

Listing NGR: TL7837286687