7, 8 And 9, Deanery Place

DEANERY PLACE SU 9643 NE (south side) 12/91 Nos 7, 8 and 9 II

Welden house now 3 dwellings. C15 with alterations C16, C17, C19 and C20. Stuccoed and rendered brick, scored as ashlar at front, concealing timber frames; plain tile roof. Originally 4 bays with central 2-bay, open hall and jettied storeyed end bays; hall partially floored in later C16 leaving smoke bay to bay 2; chimney added and fully-floored C17; jetties removed and the whole refronted early- mid C19. Road front: 2 storeys, three 1st-floor windows. 3 doorways, those to nos 8 and 9 (left and centre bays) paired, each having 6-panel door with knocker, architrave with reeded pilasters, and bracketed canopy. Nos 8 and 9 each have a sash with glazing bars to ground floor and an unequally-hung 9-pane sash above; no 7 has a sash to each floor; all windows in reveals with projecting sills, the lst- floor windows breaking into stepped, dentilled eaves. Roof hipped on left with external stack at left end and another in front roof pitch between right-hand bays. Rear additions not of special interest. Interior: of no 7 has exposed timber framing. Interiors of nos 8 and 9 not inspected, but reported to contain former central hall truss which has hollow-chamfered arch braces with run-out stops to chamfered tie-beam which has peg holes probably from former crown post; curved braces in former end walls of hall; in no 8 inserted stop-chamfered spine- beam ending on left in chamfered cross-beam, the area beyond this orginally left open as smoke bay. In 1976 work on the front of no 9 revealed large-scantling carved braces on ground floor. Domestic Buildings Research Group, Report No 1285.

Listing NGR: SU9682543960