Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ANGEL HILL 639-1/14/166 (West side) 12/07/72 Stable Block to No.8

GV II

Former stable, now partly converted to offices and partly to a repair workshop. c1700. Red brick front wall, laid in English Bond with dark headers; white brick rear; render to south gable end. Old plaintiles; roof hipped at the north end, gabled on the south. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 7 bays. A raised band between the storeys. On the upper storey, 4 original cross windows with square leaded panes remain; at the north end, 2 windows have been replaced by late C19 sashes with vertical glazing-bars in flush frames. In the 5th bay from the south the window has been replaced by a large clock, brought from a tower by the stable block at the former Ousden Hall: this has a small gabled and bracketed roof above. On the ground storey all the original openings have been blocked or altered: 2 early C19 windows have diamond leading and pointed Gothick heads. A blocked dormer with hipped roof in the north slope of the roof, and on the north ground storey one original 3-light window with square-leaded panes and pintle hinges. INTERIOR: mainly modernised, but the bay at the north end is unrestored, with exposed timbering on the ground storey: a large chamfered main beam with curved stops, joists set on edge; the internal chimney-stack has an open fireplace with a plain timber lintel.



Listing NGR: TL8545964307

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