Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET
639-1/14/148 (South side)
12/07/72 No.49

GV II*

Shop with living accommodation above. Early C17 and mid C19.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey painted brick front with slate roof and a
2-storey 5-bay timber-framed and rendered rear range with
plaintiled roof. 3 window range to front, all small-paned
sashes with stucco reveals and architraves; dentilled cornices
and a segmental pediment on console brackets above the first
storey windows.
A C20 shop front with recessed central entry to the ground
storey. A side door on the west leads into a passage running
beside the long L-shaped and jettied rear range. This has a
high moulded wooden cornice and had originally a continuous
row of slightly projecting 6-light mullion-and-transom
windows, supported on small moulded stop brackets, along the
whole upper storey. Only 3 of these 6-light windows now
survive, some with mullions removed; other original openings
have been blocked, and there is one replacement small-paned
sash window. On the ground storey, a range of similar but more
heavily moulded mullion-and-transom windows are divided into 3
groups of 3 lights below a moulded fascia covering the
joist-ends of the jetty. To the north of these windows are 2
small-paned sashes of c1700 with thick ovolo-moulded
glazing-bars.
INTERIOR: the cellar below the western half of the front has
plastered rubble walls which may be medieval; arches of Tudor
brick along the west wall; in the east wall, a projecting
stone like a corbel is set low in the wall, with a small
pointed-headed niche nearby. The rear range, in which there is
no evidence for original partitions, has ovolo-moulded main
beams on both storeys, trimmers with stepped stops, and
covered joists. Roofs not readily accessible.

Listing NGR: TL8536564171

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545345

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