Listed Building: CRUTCHED FRIARS (404994)

TL 85 NE LT. WELNETHAM SUUBURY RUAD 5/120 Crutched Friars Friars (Formerly listed as Chapel 14.7.55 Hill Farmhouse under General) II House, formerly the priory of about 5 brothers of the Order of the Holy Cross of Welnetham, known as the Crutched Friars (founded c.1274, suppressed c.1536); c.1500, altered C16 and early C20. 2 storeys and attics. U-plan; timber- framed on the inward-facing sides of the U with plastered panels between exposed framing, the upper floor long-wall jettied. The outward-facing walls of red brick with areas of diaper-patterning in blue headers; crow-stepped gables with reset terracotta tiles having various motifs. Plaintiled roofs with gabled plaintiled dormers. Massive external chimneys of red brick. Windows with 3- and 4-centred arched heads, (some hood-moulded), moulded brick jambs and mullions; heavily restored early C20, with metal casements. 4 small 1 dormitory windows with trefoiled heads on the east side. Timber-framed cloister arcade on the inward-facing sides with 4-centred arches; infilled and glazed C16, restored C20. The central range of the U-plan was originally a narrow link between 2 short and equal ranges (the west range truncated C20); a narrow cloister, now altered, ran round the small court, linking with the flint-walled chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr on its north side, of which only a buttress remains at the north-east corner of the house. The present queen- post roof is probably a C16 rebuilding. A red brick and plain-tiled 1 storey extension on the south side, c.1970. Listing NGR: TL8871158748