Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ANGEL HILL
639-1/14/165 (North side)
12/07/72 No.8
Angel Corner

GV II

House, now used as part of the Borough Offices. c1700; dated
1702 on a rainwater head. Refronted in the mid-C19. Red brick;
fully hipped plaintiled roof with 2 hipped gables to the rear
(north).
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; cellar. The C19 facade has a
parapet and a moulded brick dentil cornice. 5 window range:
sashes, with quartering glazing-bars to each sash, in deep
reveals with flat gauged brick arches and raised keystones. 2
canted bays to the ground storey, each with 3 small-paned sash
windows. Central doorway up a flight of stone steps; 6-panel
door with a plain fanlight in a heavy pilastered stone
surround with cornice. The side and rear walls have a raised
brick band and brickwork laid in Flemish Bond. 3
segmental-headed dormers to the south front and one on the
east side, all with small-paned sash windows. A brick parapet
and moulded architrave to the rear wall and 4 windows to each
storey: all sashes, 3 narrow 8-pane and one wider 12-pane, all
in flush cased frames; one blocked on the ground storey. A
half-glazed door with a triangular pediment over.
Adjoining the main house on the west is an early C19
one-and-a-half storey range in red brick with old plaintiles
to the half-hipped mansard roof. The rear of this range has 2
18-pane sash windows to the ground storey in flush cased
frames, both blocked, and large 20-pane sash windows to the 2
flat-headed dormers. There is a later link with the north end
of the adjacent stable block (qv).
INTERIOR: cellar with a vaulted section lined with stone
blocks. Entrance hall with limestone flags. Moulded plaster
cornices to the hall and both principal ground-storey rooms;
full-height panelling with raised moulded surrounds to flush
panels in the hall and the room to the east of it. A fine
original dog-leg stair, with an additional flight at the
half-landing, has closed strings, barley-sugar-twist
balusters, moulded newel-posts and handrail and
bolection-moulded dadoes. All the original doors are 6-panel,
with raised fielded panels.

Listing NGR: TL8546064307

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26433915

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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