Description

NEEDHAM MARKET HAWKSMILL STREET
TM 0855

3/61 No.29, (Hawksmill Cottage)
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- II

House, early C16 with fragmentary C15 rear wing. 2 storeys, 2 windows.
Timber-framed and plastered, the upper floor originally long-wall jettied
towards the street. Concrete tiled roof. C20 small-pane casements and
panelled entrance door. A high-quality 2-cell house which retains the altered
rear bays of a C15 cross-wing. In the hall is a wide original fireplace with
a fine lintel, embattled and rib-moulded, and with unusually well-carved
brattishing; sunk panels of painted brick above. Good close-studwork with
long arch - and tension-bracing. Complete crownpost roof, the open truss
having a square unbraced crownpost. The rear wall has arch-braced principal
posts without intermediate studwork, indicating a possible former aisle on the
site of the present C20 extension. The C15 wing has massive 1st floor joists,
tension-braced studwork and a blocked ovolo-moulded mullioned window intruded
in c.1600.

Listing NGR: TM0878555341

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26525748

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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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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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy