Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE EASTGATE STREET 639-1/8/327 (North side) 12/07/72 No.5 The Broadway (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET (North side) Nos.2-5 (Consecutive) The Broadway)

GV II

House. Early C16 with a C19 extension at the rear. Timber-framed and rendered; old plaintiles. 2 bays; formerly one building with No.6 (qv), adjoining on the east, with a shared chimney-stack between them. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2 window range: 16-pane sashes in flush cased frames. A 6-panelled central door in a plain wood surround has a fanlight with radiating glazing-bars and a flat cornice hood on shaped brackets. The rear extension has walling in flint, brick and stone and a shallow-pitched slate roof. Two 2-light small-paned casement windows, probably originally sliding sashes, and a central 4-paned window with lozenge-shaped panels in the glazing. INTERIOR: to the right of the entrance, the ground-storey room has a plain cambered lintel and rebuilt brickwork to the fireplace. Heavy studding remains along the back wall with housings for a 3-light diamond-mullioned window. In the room above, a plain cambered lintel to the blocked fireplace with a section of early C17 wall-painting beside it. This has a deep frieze and formal patterning in rectangles enclosing 4-petalled flowers; the colours are faint, mainly brown, yellow and red ochre. The partition wall between the 2 upper rooms has wide studding, a long tension brace and a blocked doorway. Similar framing in the end wall on the left. The upper room on the left also has studding to the back wall surviving, and formerly had a rear chimney-stack.



Listing NGR: TL8580364424

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)