Building record 1182506000 - TUDOR INN (OLD MARKET HOUSE), 36 HIGH STREET

Grade II. House, now restaurant. Late C15, altered C18 and C20, when plaster render was stripped and building restored, and otherwise altered. Timber-framed with rendered infill, plain-tile roof, brick internal and rear lateral stacks. 2-unit plan. 2-storeys and attic; 3-window range. C20 door to far left with C20 Tudor-arched head. C20 leaded bay windows to right of door and to ground floor far right. C20 leaded wood mullion and transom windows between them, that to right replacing a door. 2-light C20 leaded casement window to 1st floor. rendered plinth, close-studded timber frame, jettied 1st floor and braces from end posts to wall posts and tie beam of left end elevation. First-floor end posts have cusped ogee-arched sunk panels with crocketed canopies. Two C20 hipped roof dormer windows. Sun fire insurance plaque No.644298. INTERIOR: stone cellar. Ground-floor room has Tudor-arched doorway with carved spandrels, large stone fireplace with chamfered, Tudor-arched head, hollow-chamfered and moulded spine beam, stop-moulded joists, and moulded cornices. Roof has arch-braced collar trusses, diagonal ridge piece and 2 tiers of purlins, the lower purlins wind-braced. House was sub-divided vertically, probably C18. A cottage, the former King's Head, was demolished for road-widening C20 giving the house a corner position it did not originally have. Front was heavily restored following removal of plaster render and re-windowed in Tudor style, on uncertain evidence (B1).