Listed buildings, Laxfield High Street

Image: © Roger Jones Taken: 25 Aug 2014

The building nearest the camera is: The Old Bakery, list entry number: 1032881 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1032881 "House, at one time the parish workhouse. A C16 2-cell range with C17 rear wing and C18 addition to left. Timber framed, roughcast-rendered at front, plastered at rear. Pantiled roof, with mid C20 concrete pantiles to rear. 2 storeys. C18-C19 small-paned casement windows. C20 canted shop window. C16 range has central axial stack. 2-bay C18 addition extending the house as far as the guildhall (q.v.); the end bay has a carriageway at ground floor level. C16 range has plain ground floor ceilings, partly exposed studding with reversed bracing and evidence for original windows." The cottages to the right of the picture are: Guildhall Cottages, List entry Number: 1352233 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1352233 "2 cottages. A C16 3-cell house with C18 addition to left. No.4 comprises the hall and parlour cells of the C16 house, No.3 the service end and the later addition. Timber framed, roughcast-rendered at front, cement render and weatherboards at rear. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys. Various casement windows, mostly old. 2 boarded doors. No.4 has 2 gabled dormers. Internal stack to C16 range; a small gable stack to later addition. Interiors much modernised. Ceiling of parlour chamber supported on secondary upper crucks. Roof appears to have been of queen-post type, now largely reconstructed. Included for group value."

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