Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564NW ST JOHN'S STREET
639-1/3/603 (West side)
12/07/72 No.33

II

House, now divided into 3 flats. C17 core with C18 and early
C20 extensions. Part timber-framed, part brick; pebbledash
exterior with mock timbering; plaintiled roof with 2 gables
facing the street, that on the right a mansard.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. One projecting cross window in
the mansard gable supported by 3 ornate brackets; 2 slightly
projecting cross windows to the upper storey; a 3-light window
on left and one cross window on right on the ground storey,
both in heavy flush frames. A small open gabled porch roof
over the central doorway supported on timber columns. Plank
door. Above the ground storey a timber band, elaborately
carved with a vine motif, dated 1630 with a shield bearing a
chevron and 33 woolsacks. This was originally a fascia board
covering a jetty and is not in situ. At tie-beam and collar
level on the gables are bands of Jacobean ornament, also not
in situ. The Victorian pierced and fluted bargeboards to the
gables are also re-used.
INTERIOR: the right side of the house has a fragmentary C17
core, with the line of the lower wallplate and tie visible in
the upper room; it was raised and given a mansard roof in the
C18. The left side seems to be an extension of the same date
as the facade, and is quite without decoration or features of
interest inside.

Listing NGR: TL8523664677

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537540

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