Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ST JOHN'S STREET
639-1/7/598 (West side)
12/07/72 No.6

GV II

House; now shop and offices. C16 with C18 front and C19
alterations. Timber-framed and rendered; steeply-pitched slate
roof with wide eaves and a moulded plaster cornice. L-shaped
plan with a contemporary rear wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; 2 window range: sashes in
flush cased frames with a single vertical glazing bar to
lights. One similar window on the ground storey and a wide C19
double shop front with glazing bars which overlaps with the
adjoining No.7 (qv). 2 gabled dormers have sashes with
vertical glazing bars and plain bargeboards. A 6-panel door in
a plain wood architrave has a rectangular fanlight with
vertical glazing bars.
A heavy blind box above the door and shop fascia and a
scrolled cast-iron bracket for a hanging sign projecting
between the upper windows. At the rear, the 2-storey
timber-framed C16 wing is rendered and roughcast, with C20
plaintiles and an end chimney-stack. A small 2-storey C19
extension has a shallow-pitched slate roof.
INTERIOR: no cellar. Front range originally jettied, in 2 wide
bays, divided into 2 rooms with exposed main beams on the
ground storey with shallow double roll mouldings. A similar
moulding to the main beam in the rear wing. A beam with ogee
moulding and a cresting which is set near the front wall of
the northern bay may be a reversed fascia beam which covered
the joist ends of the former jetty.
The upper rooms are high, with only plain main ceiling beams
exposed; a corner fireplace in one room. Plastered attics.

Listing NGR: TL8522064494

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537594

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)