Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564NW ST JOHN'S STREET
639-1/3/604 (West side)
12/07/72 No.36

GV II

House, now with a shop on the ground storey and offices above.
C17. Timber-framed and rendered; old plaintiled roof. An
internal red brick chimney-stack has a tall plain rectangular
shaft with 4 C19 chimney pots.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics, unusually for Bury St Edmunds,
set gable-end to the street and probably originally jettied. A
projecting blank gable on the south rises the full height of
the roof. Fluted bargeboards to both gables and billet
mouldings to the slightly overhanging tie-beams.
A tripartite Edwardian sash window to the 1st storey with a
single vertical glazing bar to the middle light and a sash
window with a single vertical glazing bar in the apex of the
gable, both in flush cased frames. Along the south side a
small-paned sash window and a gabled dormer with a 3-light
casement window.
The ground storey has a late C19 double shop front with
central recessed entrance doorway and half-glazed door, fascia
with dentil cornice, supporting ornate console brackets and
panelled stall boards.
INTERIOR: a small brick-lined cellar. Frame in 4 bays,
including a chimney bay. All features concealed on the ground
storey apart from one ovolo-moulded main beam in the rear bay.
The 1st storey is divided into 3 one-bay rooms, with the stack
between the rear 2. Widely spaced studding and main posts with
long shallow jowls; the rear room has an ovolo-moulded main
beam; the other 2 rooms have main beams with a plain chamfer
and scroll stops with groove. Clasped purlin roof; rafters
mainly covered.

Listing NGR: TL8524164702

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