Object number
59/306/1-3
Description
Three unfired bricks from the end walls of the Watchman's House at High Street, Saxmundham, Suffolk.
These three unfired bricks came from the end walls, three feet above the ground, of the Watchman's House at the corner of the High Street in Saxmundham, Suffolk. The house was locally believed to be early-Tudor, but the donor believed it dated from the seventeenth-eighteenth century. It became the Police Station in the mid-nineteenth century, and was demolished in 1954.
Physical description
3 bricks: ceramic
Archival history
Note from N. Teulon-Porter – ‘The unfired bricks came from the watchman’s house, which later became the Police Station in mid 19th century, at the corner of the High Street of Saxmundham in Suffolk. The house was locally believed to be early Tudor. Came from the end walls of the house about three feet from the ground. // Personally I should call it a cottage, but refuse to define the word in relation to a town building: and place the cottage at 17/18th century. It stood in a side street of Saxmundham and was demolished in 1954.’
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- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_14156.tif - High resolution image
