Description

TM 0475
6/9
29.7.55

BOTESDALE
MARKET PLACE (NORTH EAST SIDE)
Honister House (formerly listed as Premises occupied by Chilvers (Drapery Stores))

GV
II

House, formerly 2 dwellings with a brush factory. Mid C17 with C16 origins,
altered c.1830, extended later C19. Timber frame, plastered, some
weatherboarding. Steeply pitched pantiled roofs. 2 cell, 3 bay, 2 storey and
attic main block; 2 bay, 2 storey section to right has earlier origins, C19
former factory additions to far right. Main block has a central entrance,
early C19 vertically panelled door with a pointed arched head, plain surround,
elaborate doorhead in a loosely Tudor style, pendant drops, jewel lozenges,
pulvinated frieze and dentillations to a cyma cornice. Flanking early C19 3-
light cavetto mullion and transom glazing bar casements with hoodmoulds, three
2-light gabled dormers, external white brick end stacks, that to left as part
of Drapery Stores (q.v.), that to right with a rebuilt cap. Lower 2 bays to
right have an entrance in a C20 porch to right, glazing bar casements, moulded
coved eaves, rebuilt cross axial ridge stack to right of centre. Former
factory to right is as a 2 bay 2 storey house with a shallower roof pitch,
central boarded door, glazing bar casements, top hung on first floor. Right
end lean-to with a former coach-house beyond with segmental headed double
doors. To rear from main range a central 2 storey lean-to with a first floor
leaded cross casement, 1 storey lean-to to right; behind lower build a 1
storey and attic part brick gabled bay projects; C19 addition has 2 external
stacks and beaded weatherboarding to rear. Interior: early C19 slung dogleg
staircase with slat balusters, bar and indent ogee stop chamfered cross axial
binding beams, butt purlin roof with tension windbracing, in lower section an
edge halved scarf joint, frame largely concealed.

Listing NGR: TM0478875876

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26508205

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair