Listed Building: ELLESMERE HOUSE (280430)

TM 07 NE WORTHAM CHURCH ROAD (EAST SIDE) 1/140 Ellesmere House -- II Large house. Late C16, extended and altered late C17 and mid C19. Timber frame, plastered with some pargetting. Extended in red and white brick, part colourwashed. Plain tiled and glazed pantiled roofs. 2 bay hall is early core, former parlour bay and stack added to left, service end rebuilt as parlour cross range in C19 to form an L on plan, further additions to rear. 2 storeys and attics. Entrance now to right of hall in part of mid C19 addition, steps up to a 6 fielded panelled door with a semi-circular fanlight in a round headed architrave, flat headed porch with-a round arch, recessed panels, inpost blocks, cornice and blocking course. To left a break in plinth suggesting original cross passage entrance, replaced by a window. 2 and 3- light transomed C19 casements, some panelled herringbone pargetting, eaves cornice, 2 C19 gabled 2-light leaded pane bargeboarded dormers. Rebuilt large axial ridge stack between hall and former parlour end. Left gable end scattered casements, 2 early leaded lights in attic, exposed purlins in steeply pitched roof, bargeboards. To rear of left bay a pantiled catslide roof over an early lean-to outshut addition with an entrance to rear, a 2 storey wing extends behind stack with a 2-light leaded window in outer return, C19 brick rear gable end with a ground floor 20 pane sash, moulded flush frame and segmental head, first floor recessed 16 pane sash. To rear of hall bays a shorter C19 gabled wing with a two-thirds glazed door, ground floor 20 pane sash, first floor segmental headed tripartite sash. Mid C19 parlour range has colourwashed brick gable end to front with moulded kneelers to coped shallow gable parapet with an internal stack. Right return to garden is a 3 bay, 2 storey symmetrical facade. Ground floor: 2 segmental bow windows, central glazed doors with fanlights, flanking tall 4:4 pane sashes, all recessed with blind boxes, offset plinths, rendered cornices to flat heads. First floor 8:4 panes flank 6:3 pane sashes. Mutule blocked boarded eaves. Internal stack to rear with parapet as to front. Inner return to rear has a catslide roof over a lean-to addition. Interior: hall has cross axial binding beam, double roll in cavetto mouldings, stopped roll moulded joists, a reset brattished beam across former upper end of hall, former parlour now service end axial chamfered binding beam, stairs behind stack, first floor stop chamfered cross axial binding beams, framing largely concealed, butt purlin roofs over early range. C19 addition has simple plasterwork, a segmental arch over staircase with slat balusters, moulded ramped handrail. Partly moated site (East Anglian Miscellany, 1927, pp.25-6). Listing NGR: TM0826077846