Perhaps incongruously a retail output to that most modern of materials - plastic - Ipswich's Grade 1 listed building, the Ancient House, doubles now as the Ipswich branch of Lakeland. Outside, on the exterior walls, the Ancient House, boasts some of the finest examples of pargetting in the land.
Pargetting - decorative plasterwork on outside walls - is a distinctively East Anglian feature of old buildings (although that may mostly to do with more rebuilding work, particularly during Victorian times, around the rest of the country), and Ipswich's Ancient House is definitely one of its finest examples.