Description

TL 5563 SWAFFHAM BULBECK COMMERCIAL END
(East Side)

14/121 No. 94

GV II

House, early-mid C18. Now almost obscured by an early C19 front
range built by Thomas Bowyer. Original house of clunch with red
brick dressings and a steeply pitched tiled roof with end
parapets and end stacks. Two storeys and attics. Only part of
the original front elevation is visible. One hipped dormer
above an original sash window at first floor. The doorway is
C19. The C19 front range has a gault brick front wall and end
walls mainly of clunch but with upper courses also of gault
brick. Steeply pitched, tiled roof with end stacks. Two
storeys and attics. Three dormers. Symmetrical elevation of
three mid-late C19 hung sashes of four panes each. The window
sills were all lowered in mid-late C19. Two similar ground
floor windows flank central doorway with door of four panels and
two glazed upper panels. Inside the front range retains its
original open-string staircase with moulded rail. Associated
with maltings, adjoining to the East.

R.C.H.M. (North East Cambs.), p110, mon (42)

Listing NGR: TL5577663285

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26419970

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