Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW WHITING STREET
639-1/15/718 (West side)
07/08/52 No.61
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
WHITING STREET
(West side)
Nos.61, 62 AND 63)

GV II

House. C14 with C16 alterations and extensions and full
restoration in 1994/5. Timber-framed and rendered, with raised
roughcast panels to the front; old plaintiled roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics: jettied along the street
frontage. One window to each storey: on the 1st storey, a
16-pane sash in a flush cased frame. On the ground storey, a
small-paned early C19 shop window with a rounded corner is
divided by pilasters and has panelled stall-boards. A 2-light
casement window in the attic has good ornate C17 window
latches. This surviving cross-wing is the oldest surviving
part of the complex which includes the whole of Nos 62 & 63
Whiting Street (qv). It was originally built against an
earlier, probably C13, hall range. A C16 chimney-stack on the
south gable wall indicates that at that time there was also a
range adjoining on the south: the top of the stack is in red
brick, with saw-tooth chimneys on a high base; the lower part
is rendered, and has a fireplace with stone jambs on the upper
storey of its south side. The 6-panel entrance door is in a
plain wood surround with a rectangular fanlight above.
Short C19 cast-iron railings and a matching gate with
arrow-head finials and scrolled tops to the main supports are
attached to the front of the house.
INTERIOR: cellar filled in. The entrance door leads into a
long passage which is structurally part of the adjoining C15
hall range to the north (now within No.62 and part of No.63):
the studding of the end wall of the hall is exposed, butted up
against the side-wall of this cross-wing. The wing is in 4
bays, divided on the upper storey into 2 rooms; the original
ground-storey arrangement is not clear, though there is now a
dividing wall. The main posts of the frame have the remains of
long 2-way braces rising to the wallplates, housed with open
lap joints, some slightly dovetailed. The front ground storey
room has a heavy C15 ceiling with a chamfered main beam
supported by large arched braces (one removed) and plain
joists. The rear room has a C14 ceiling with lodged joists. A

C16 fireplace in the front bay, part of the stack built
against the south wall has a wide opening with a fine cambered
lintel and supporting jambs of reused stone. On the upper
storey the main ceiling beams are closely set. The roof is a
plain C17 replacement with side purlins, but there is
fragmentary evidence in one truss that it was originally of
crown post form.
(Information from Philip Aitkens).

Listing NGR: TL8533363904

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389004

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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