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  16th Century Molet House, Barn Street, Lavenham, Suffolk, England   Molet House is an early 16th Century building in Barn Street.

Further down the same street is the Old Grammar School where John Constable, the famous painter, attended.

 

 

 

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  Photograph of Medieval half-timbered houses, High Street, Lavenham, Suffolk, England   Medieval Houses in the High Street.

 

 

 

 

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  Photograph of the 13th Century Lavenham Priory, Lavenham, Suffolk, England   Lavenham Priory.

Dating from the 13th Century this building was originally owned by the Benedictine monks, hence the name, but later became a wealthy Elizabethan merchants house.

It is now a private house offering bed and breakfast in historic surroundings.

 

 

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  Photograph of the 13th Century Lavenham Priory, Lavenham, Suffolk, England   Water Street, Lavenham.

This absolutely stunning house has brick infill in a herring-bone pattern rather than the usual wattle and daub. This means that whoever had the house built originally was very well off indeed as bricks, at that time, were very expensive.

 

 

 

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