Description

NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (EAST)
TM 0855

3/121 No.92, (Pillar House)

9.12.55

- II

House; C14 core with complex alterations of C15 and later, and remodelling of
early C19. 2 storeys, 3 windows. Timber-framed, encased at front in early
C19 gault brick, with flat pilasters at corners and dentilled wooden cornice
at base of parapet. Slated roof at front with internal end chimneys of gault
brick. (Other roofs plaintiled). Early C19 windows with flat arches of gauged
brick, flush frames and small-pane sashes (the window in the slightly set-
forward bay over the entrance is a well-painted dummy). Good early C19
entrance doorway with Doric portico: fluted columns and pilasters support a
flat entablature with triglyph enrichment. 4 panelled entrance door recessed
between panelled reveals; oblong fanlight with border panes. A low rear wing
faces the "east" window of the Parish church; its nucleus contains an open
hall of perhaps early C14, with unusual features. The roof is heavily smoke-
encrusted and in 2 very unequal bays. At the depleted open truss is part of
an octagonal crownpost with simple capital and 4 straight square-sectioned
braces. A single-bay cell adjacent to the hall retains its roof, but both
cells are otherwise very depleted. A wing at right angles was added, perhaps
in early C15, beside the High Street. It has widely-spaced studwork with very
long tension-braces; the 2-bay solar has a complete original roof with a
massive cross-quadrate crownpost at the open truss. In mid C16 an upper floor
of roll-moulded beams and joists was inserted into the hall, with a large
fireplace in the cross-passage; a further cell was also added to the rear,
this having a blocked window in the gable with moulded mullions. A short
second rear wing was added c.1600.

Listing NGR: TM0879155158

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545406

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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