Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE HONEY HILL
639-1/11/443 (South side)
12/07/72 No.5
(Formerly Listed as:
HONEY HILL
(South side)
The Old Court House (adjoining Coach
and Horses PH on the West))

GV II

House; now used as Museum Office. c1590 with alterations of
the mid C18, c1900 and 1990. Timber-framed and plastered, the
front pargeted with large raised mid-C18 panels. Plaintiled
roof. One internal and one rear chimney-stack of C18 and C20
red brick. 2-cell plan with a modified cross-wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics: 3 window range: mid-C18
casements with transoms and leaded lights, mainly renewed
c1900 with wooden label moulds. Entrance doorway of c1900 in a
single-storey extension to the right; boarded and battened
door with fanlight.
INTERIOR: hall to the left with altered mid-C16 open fireplace
and moulded mid-C16 1st storey beams and joists, adapted and
re-used c1590. Fragmentary wall painting of floral designs
over fireplace. Parlour to the right with plain and massive
joists. A late C17 wall-painting fragment of a tromp-l'oeil
arcaded window. The hall chamber has fragmentary but more
important wall-painting of c1590 with alternate vertical
panels in red and grey with a foliate frieze of black and
white on grey; on the east wall are 2 damaged black letter
Scriptural inscriptions in red borders taken from Barker's
version of the Bible of 1581.
The parlour chamber has similar wall-paintings in which the
panels have an additional frieze of diamonds within a red
border.

Listing NGR: TL8574563936

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26273473

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Recommended Books

• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]