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BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW THE TRAVERSE 639-1/14/638 Nos.10, 11 AND 12 07/08/52 (Formerly Listed as: THE TRAVERSE Nos.10, 11 AND 12) (Formerly Listed as: SKINNER STREET Rear of Nos 11, 12, 13 & 14 The Traverse)

GV II

A pair of houses, now divided into 3 separate shop premises on the ground storey but divided between 2 on the upper storeys. Basically late C15 and early C16 with early C19 alterations. Timber-framed, initially jettied along the street frontage; plaintiled roofs with a moulded wood eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellars. 4 window range: all 12-pane sashes in flush cased frames, but the window of No.10 set higher than the remainder. 3 lead-covered segmental-headed dormers with rendered cheeks and small-paned casement windows. 3 C20 shop fronts to the ground storey. The rear ranges were formerly separate timber-framed houses facing on to Skinner Street, now joined to The Traverse frontages. No.10 contains a shop which occupies only the ground storey and is linked to the ground-storey Skinner Street frontage of No.9B The Traverse (qv under Nos 9, 9A and 9B The Traverse). No.11 has a small late C15 2-bay range to Skinner Street, rendered and jettied, with the joist ends of the jetty exposed, but it also overlaps with another late C15 jettied house to the south where part of the jetty has been underbuilt and the roofline is higher. 2 windows to the 1st storey: a tripartite small-paned window above the exposed jetty has a large central 16-pane sash and 2 smaller side lights, but is made up of reused parts; to the south of it, a 12-pane sash window in a flush cased frame. On the ground storey one 12-pane and one 16-pane sash window, both in flush cased frames with panelled external shutters. A large rendered lucum-like dormer has a 2-light casement window. A half-glazed door set at an angle has panes of old bull's eye glass. The Skinner Street range behind No.12 The Traverse is rendered, with part of the jetty underbuilt but part exposed; embattled ornament along the bressumer. Two 12-pane sash windows to the upper storey, one 12-pane sash and another with

plate glass to the ground storey, all in flush cased frames. INTERIOR: extensive cellars with walling of brick, flint and stone blocks; wide arched recesses below No.12. Little framing survives on the ground or 1st storeys, but since recent restoration the gap between the Traverse and Skinner Street sections is clearly visible, and also the join between the 2 frames on the upper rear of No.11. The 2-bay northern part of No.11 has a crown-post roof, formerly in an attic, but now blocked off: the shaft and capital are mutilated but retain part of their mouldings. Formerly braced 4 ways. but now with braces only to the collar-purlin. Along the east slope of the roof most of the original rafters have been cut away and replaced by rafters with side purlins. Little framing exposed within No.12, but part of the structure of the underbuilt jetty is visible along the Skinner Street side: a main post carries a solid bracket with a moulded capital and shaft below it. Crown post roof.



Listing NGR: TL8529264245

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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