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The Common, SUDBURY, CO10 9RL

Located on Lower Road, with houses beyond, near the junction with the main A1141 from Brent Eleigh.

These are the first houses after the road from Brent Eleigh turns towards the centre of Lavenham. There are many historic buildings further up the street off the left of the picture.

Number 39 Water Street is a 16th century timber framed and plastered house. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1181354 Lavenham is a village in Suffolk about 5 miles north east of Sudbury. The village has Saxon origins but is best known as a medieval wool town. Granted a market charter in 1257, the village prospered in the 15th century and many buildings date to that period. The town grew so fast that many of the houses were built in haste with green timber. As the wood dried, the timbers warped causing the houses to bend at unexpected angles. Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long and the cloth industry declined so no one had money to rebuild their homes and Lavenham’s crooked houses were left as they were.

The building was reconstructed in the 1920s

Number 18 Shilling Street is a small timber framed and plastered house believed to be 15th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1181289 Lavenham is a village in Suffolk about 5 miles north east of Sudbury. The village has Saxon origins but is best known as a medieval wool town. Granted a market charter in 1257, the village prospered in the 15th century and many buildings date to that period. The town grew so fast that many of the houses were built in haste with green timber. As the wood dried, the timbers warped causing the houses to bend at unexpected angles. Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long and the cloth industry declined so no one had money to rebuild their homes and Lavenham’s crooked houses were left as they were.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1181289?section=official-list-entry

Arundel House, number 17 Shilling Street is 16th or 17th century greatly altered in the 18th century and later. Timber framed and plastered with a Tuscan doorcase. There is a rear wing. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1037163 Lavenham is a village in Suffolk about 5 miles north east of Sudbury. The village has Saxon origins but is best known as a medieval wool town. Granted a market charter in 1257, the village prospered in the 15th century and many buildings date to that period. The town grew so fast that many of the houses were built in haste with green timber. As the wood dried, the timbers warped causing the houses to bend at unexpected angles. Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long and the cloth industry declined so no one had money to rebuild their homes and Lavenham’s crooked houses were left as they were.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1037163?section=official-list-entry

Number 37 Water Street is gable end to the street and has its entrance door in Shilling Street. A late 18th or early 19th century building in brick. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1037170 Lavenham is a village in Suffolk about 5 miles north east of Sudbury. The village has Saxon origins but is best known as a medieval wool town. Granted a market charter in 1257, the village prospered in the 15th century and many buildings date to that period. The town grew so fast that many of the houses were built in haste with green timber. As the wood dried, the timbers warped causing the houses to bend at unexpected angles. Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long and the cloth industry declined so no one had money to rebuild their homes and Lavenham’s crooked houses were left as they were.