Listed Building: SHEEPCOTE HALL (384572)

STOWMARKET TM05NE CREETING ROAD 614-1/3/48 (South side) 09/12/55 Sheepcote Hall (Formerly Listed as: STOWUPLAND Sheepcote Hall) GV II Manor house and offices. Late C16 with some mid and late C20 alterations. Roughcast and colourwashed timber-frame with some brick. Plain tile roofs. Plan is of C16 block running east-west with a gabled projection to left of north front. To the rear are 3 gabled projections. Early C17 timber-framed extension added at right angles to the left of facade projecting north. 2 storeys and atticMain front with C20 panelled door to left of an early C20 canted bay window. One sash left of door and 2 to first floor. Gabled wing to left with one sash each floor. All windows are mid C20 sashes. Gabled roofs. Gable-end stack to west end on front roof slope comprises a C16 rectangular plinth with a saw-toothed flue cluster above. East gable with a similar external stack growing out of concentration of later outshuts and additions. Rear (south) elevation has one 2/2 sash to west gable end, otherwise all openings have late C20 aluminium replacements. East end with a single-storey hipped brick extension. North early C17 projection probably originally a brewhouse, now offices. 2 storeys. Plank door to west with two 3-light C20 windows under eaves. Stack emerges through roof at eaves. East face with C20 gabled porch and three C20 windows of differing types. INTERIOR. Brewhouse has thin scantling timber-frame with chamfered tie beams. Wide wall fireplace of English bond brick with bread oven complete with cast-iron door and fittings. Close studded first floor frame. C20 sub-divisions. Main block with staircase in entrance hall installed 1950. Various alterations to plan at same time and inserted partitions. Ground floor: East room (kitchen) with roll-moulded bridging beam with keeled tongue stops. Room right (west) of entrance with chamfered cruciform bridging beams with tongue and bar stops. Room to rear remodelled 1950, but originally contained the C16 staircase. First floor: Frame with jowled principal studs. West room with small-framed C17 panelling not in situ. C16 roof of projecting east wing of principals, curved windbraces, butt purlins and cambered chamfered collars. C17 roof of main block with chamfered principals, collars, curved windbracing and renewed purlins. Rear cross-wing roof with clasped purlins but undiminished principals, collars and curved windbraces, C16. Listing NGR: TM0638458612