Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE WESTGATE STREET
639-1/11/662 (South side)
01/10/85 No.1

GV II

House, now offices. Dated 1884. Constructed as a model house
by Lot Jackaman, who built the Bury St Edmunds' Corn Exchange,
Cornhill (qv). In random knapped flint and sandstone with
long-and-short quoins which incorporate medallions. Slate roof
with fretted ridge-tiles. High Victorian Gothic.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. 3 window range: most windows
have stilted stone hood-moulds with foliated and carved
head-stops. Cross windows to the 1st storey with mullions and
transoms, stop-chamfered stone arrises and moulded stone
sills.
The eastern ground storey window is set in a square stone bay
with moulded chamfered stone corner columns and rounded
moulded parapet. The remaining 2 ground storey windows are
irregular in proportion with mullions and transoms. 7-panelled
door within a mullioned and transomed screen with glazing
bars. The doorway has a hood-mould, splayed jambs and a
datestone in a shield above. A simple cornice in Doric style.
The east gable, designed to advertise, exhibits a gable
finial, decorated window surround, ornate keystone, name stone
"Jackaman; Builder, stone and marble mason", balusters,
consoles, terracotta ventilators, Ionic capitals, cherub mask
and varying stone surface treatments and textures. The west
gable has fluted bargeboards, imitation half-timbering and
herringbone red brick infill.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL8565463751

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26434718

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)