Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW RISBYGATE STREET
639-1/7/528 (South side)
12/07/72 Nos.9 AND 10

II

House, now divided into 2 as offices and shop. Early C19.
White brick, painted at No.9, combined with flint on the lower
part of the north gable wall of No.10; render to rear range.
Slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar to front, 2 storeys to rear. An
added top storey to the front range has a plain parapet and
stone modillion cornice; a moulded stone band between the 1st
and 2nd storey windows marks the original wallplate level; the
rear slope of the earlier roof can be seen from the back of
the building. 5 window range, arranged 2: 1: 2: with the
centre breaking forward slightly. Sashes in plain reveals,
with plate glass to the 1st storey and with a single vertical
glazing bar on the 2nd storey.
On the ground storey, No.9 has a C19 fascia with console
brackets above a late C20 shop window in Oriental style; No.10
has 2 sashes, similar but larger than those above. All the
sash windows have flat gauged arches.
The central entry, up stone steps, has a recessed door in a
segmental-arched brick surround with fluted Doric columns and
a fanlight with decorative glazing. The rear range has 12-pane
sash windows. A white brick gable end on the west has a later
C19 single storey canted bay window with flat roof.
INTERIOR: no features suggest an earlier date than C19. Brick
and kidney flint to cellar walling. Moulded plaster cornices.
Stair with ramped and wreathed handrail and ornate cast-iron
balusters. The front and rear slopes of the former attics can
be seen in the 2nd storey rooms.

Listing NGR: TL8511664434

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537478

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  For the Record
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)