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TM 16 SE
6/96

DEBENHAM
HIGH STREET (west side)
Nos 10, 12-14

(Formerly listed as Fleming's Antiques & Post Office, previously listed as Post Office; Barclay's Bank; Premises adjoining Barclay's Bank on S.side)

9.12.55

GV
II

Originally guildhall of Holy Trinity, now antique dealers premises. Mid C15; Post Office is later addition, perhaps C17. Timber framed, the facade mainly roughcast-rendered, part to left plastered. Plaintiled roof, the tiles on the rear slope of concrete.

Two storeys with small attic. The guildhall was jettied to front and rear, now mostly underbuilt except for a small portion to rear with two original brackets. Various windows of C19 and C20. Former Antiques shop has an early C19 bowed shopfront: two windows each with 24 panes; central doorway with mid C20 semi-glazed door in two leaves, oblong overlight with geometric glazing bars. Flat-roofed open porch on square timber posts; above is a nameboard in the form of an elaborate cartouche. Disused doorway to centre.

Former Post Office has a flush 15-paned shop window and C20 semi-glazed door; two small-paned mid C20 casements above. Two internal stacks, the earlier one to left with plain axial shaft.

Interior. The guildhall is in four bays; the ground floor was divided into two equal rooms and the upper floor was a single full-length room, open to the roof. It was unheated. Ceiling of ground floor has heavy plain joists. Exposed studding in south gable end on upper floor. North gable end has original first floor doorway with four-centred arch. Fine two-tier roof. Cambered tie beams with arched braces rising from buttress-shafts on the wallposts. The tie beams carry queen-posts, plain except for chamfers on the inner face, which are braced to the arcade plates. Cambered upper tie beams carry short chamfered crown-posts with four-way bracing. C16 stack inserted in third bay from south.

Interior of former Post Office not examined. Referred to as 'the new hall' of the Gild of the Holy Trinity in a Bloodhall Manor rental of 1463. The guildhall facade is described in c.1850 as having been herringbone brick nogged and with a 'new frontage of late years' (Samuel Dove's Debenham, 1986, p.7). For structural drawings see Mr T. Easton, Bedfield Hall.

Listing NGR: TM1734963316

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26283724

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)