Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE ST MARY'S SQUARE
639-1/11/624 (North side)
12/07/72 No.4A

GV II

House and office. Built 1811/12 as a Methodist Chapel. Used
after 1878 as a stay manufactory and subsequently partly for
commercial and partly for domestic purposes. Red brick; fully
hipped pantiled roof with a wide paired modillion eaves
soffit.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3 window range to the south front:
small-paned sashes with semicircular heads, radiating glazing
bars, plain reveals and gauged brick arches. A large central
C20 entrance has paired pilasters and a heavy cornice hood;
glazed double doors.
The east front has an upper row of 3 small-paned sashes in
plain reveals with flat gauged arches. A lean-to along the
rear, which contains the stair to the upper storey, was added
after 1878 and incorporates part of the east garden wall of
No.4 (qv). A plaque in the wall reads 'This wall belongs to
(name illegible) 1827'.
INTERIOR: 2 rows of reused C17 timber posts support the upper
floor, inserted after 1878 when the building ceased to be used
as a chapel. On the upper storey the north wall has 2 former
window openings with semicircular heads, one blocked, the
other made into a doorway.
(BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 150).

Listing NGR: TL8576263847

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26428559

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas