Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW RISBYGATE STREET 639-1/7/527 (South side) 12/07/72 No.3 The Market Tavern Public House

GV II

Formerly known as: The Waggon Inn RISBYGATE STREET. House, now a public house. C19 front; C16 and C17 interior. Timber-framed and formerly jettied; fronted in painted brick; C20 pantiles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellars. 3 window range: 16-pane sashes in plain reveals. The ground storey windows are set in shallow segmental-arched recesses and the central doorway is in a semicircular arched recess. 2 segmental-headed dormers have 2-light small-paned casement windows. A long wing extends at the rear. INTERIOR: front range in 2 bays with a central cross entry bay between them. To left and right of the entry the main beams have multiple roll-mouldings with a cresting above, running leaf carving on the soffit and run-off stops. The joists have ogee and roll-mouldings and run-off stops. In the cross-entry the main beam has roll-mouldings, also on the soffit, and the joists double roll mouldings. On the left of the entry the studs of the partition wall are exposed with the infill removed: an original doorway remains with spandrels missing and traces of a roll-moulded surround. 2 later doorways have been inserted. Mouldings and a cresting continue round the left room. A chimney-stack on the rear wall has a plain lintel and a rounded back to the brickwork. The room to the right of the entry has a large rebuilt gable-end stack with a flat lintel, moulded on the soffit. The C17 rear range has some plain ceiling beams exposed. The upper storey is said to have no exposed framing.



Listing NGR: TL8515564423

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Recommended Books

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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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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)