Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW CHURCHGATE STREET
639-1/14/234 (North side)
12/07/72 No.12

GV II

Shop with flat above, forming one range with Nos 15 and 16
Whiting Street (qv). C16, raised and fronted in the early C19.
Timber-framed, with a white brick facade; slate roof with a
plain brick parapet and moulded stone cornice.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 3 window range, 1:1:1 with the
centre window on each storey blank: 12-pane sashes to the 1st
storey in deep reveals with stone sills and flat arches;
similar 6-pane sashes to the 2nd storey. On the ground storey
one similar sash window and a small C19 shop front with reeded
pilasters and cornice. Door up 2 steps. A recessed niche with
foot-scraper beside the door.
INTERIOR: in 2 bays with an exposed timber ceiling on the
ground storey: multiple roll-mouldings to the main beam,
cross-beams, and the cornices in the 2 side walls; single
roll-moulding to the joists. The boarding between the joists
is unplastered. A blocked fireplace in the west wall has a
large plain cambered lintel. The small fireplace above on the
1st storey has the brickwork exposed and a cambered timber
lintel with the remains of painted decoration in a design
apparently of fruit and flowers. In the wall over the upper
fireplace a cambered tie-beam with 3 empty mortices for the
beams of a former cambered ceiling. Studding along the rear
upper wall includes a blocked original window; the main post
of the open truss has an empty mortice for a long brace to the
tie-beam.
The top storey is an early C19 addition. A cellar below the
eastern bay is approached by an old winder stair with stone
lower treads.

Listing NGR: TL8533464043

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540352

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