Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ANGEL HILL
639-1/14/162 (West side)
07/08/52 No.4

GV II

Shop with living accommodation above. C16, C18 and early C19.
Timber-framed; rendered in raised rectangular panels;
plaintile roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellar: 3-cell front range
with internal chimney and former lobby-entrance; an C18 rear
range at right-angles to it, forming an L which is partly
infilled by an early C19 extension. The right half of the main
roof has twin gables with plain bargeboards and a wide moulded
eaves cornice below them. 4 window range: 16-pane sashes in
flush cased frames. C20 shop fronts with small-paned windows
in Regency style. 2 entrance doors, one to the shop, recessed,
the other, on the left, 6-panelled with linenfold carving to
the panels, plain pilasters and triangular pediment. A rear
range, aligned east-west,has a mansard roof which tops over
the front roof and 12-pane sash windows. The C19 extension is
gabled with painted brick to the ground storey, roughcast
above, and small-paned sash windows.
INTERIOR: cellars below part of front and rear, all
modernised. Original features are concealed in the front range
on the ground storey, the rear wall has been partly removed
and the chimney-stack tunnelled through to give access to the
C19 extension. On the upper storey 2 rooms to the right of the
stack have been made into one; a disused angle fireplace in
the north-west corner. The main posts of the chimney-bay are
exposed, with mortices for the former long braces. Clasped
purlin roof in 6 bays with deep cambered collars. The C19
extension contains a winder stair with stick balusters and
wreathed handrail. Several C18 6-panelled doors with raised
fielded panels remain inside the building.

Listing NGR: TL8549064208

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26433912

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey