Building record IPS 2079 - 54-48 Fore Street, Ipswich

Early C19 brick front to older building. Three storeys, three window range of double hung sashes with glazing bars in plain reveals. The outer windows are three light. Brick band between first and second storeys. Ground storey has late C19 shop front under cornice. Flat pitched slate roof. Interior has enriched plaster ceilings on first floor (compare Three Cups Hotel, Harwich). Decorated in one case as a compartmented ceiling with plaster enrichment on the beads of foliage trails and the sections with shaped angular panels round a central square with central boss; and with flower bunches in the shaped panels. The other ceiling has an oval central panel with Tudor rose centre and fleur-de-lys. The ceilings are probably late C16 or early C17 (S1). Timber-framed building survey of Ipswich (S2).