Needham Market, Suffolk

I stopped off in Needham Market for the weekend. It is a lovely and quiet little village eight miles north of Ipswich. It was like visiting an ethnographic open air museum.

     

It looks like a prosperous merchant's house but it was built in 1849 as the local railway station.

One of several local pubs with many original features exposed inside but I wasnt sure about teh colour scheme.

A Queen Annr style house.

The former market hall

The former town hall

A Georgian style house

Another large house

The church of St John the Baptist made of stone, brick and flint and a close up of the main entrance dating from the 13th century.

A view of the church from the other side of the road. Note the unusual  lights in the roof.

The main nave.

The organ at the west end.

A detail of the hammer beam roof.

The font

The extension built at the west end for the priest. Note again the roof lights.

A buttress at one corner with a doorway through the base.

Some houses are a lot easier to date when the year of construction is on the outside.

An Elizabethan timbered and jettied merchant's house.

A detail of a door.

Another dated house built 1482.

The Methodist chapel

A lathe and plaster jettied cottage.

A Victorian double fronted house.

The former alms house.

This little cottage had an ornamental plaster decoration.

The old school house.