Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW CHURCHGATE STREET
639-1/14/241 (North side)
07/08/52 No.27

GV II

House, now offices. C17 core; modernised c1690 and again in
the early C18. Timber-framed, fronted in brick panelled in 2
shades of red; roughcast-rendered sides and rear. Plaintiled
roof, hipped on the north side, with a wide moulded and
dentilled wooden eaves cornice.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and cellar. 4 window range: all
12-pane sashes in moulded cased frames with slightly
projecting timber sills. The windows are set into vertical
panels of light-coloured red brick and have gauged heads, but
straight joints in the brickwork below the sills indicate that
they are replacements set at a higher level than the original
fenestration. The panels between the windows are in a dark red
brick laid in header bond. One segmental-headed lead-covered
dormer has a 6-pane sash window.
The recessed off-centre entrance door, up 3 stone steps, has 6
raised fielded panels, unusually with the centre panels
smaller, and a surround with moulded architrave and panelled
reveals.
INTERIOR: the cellar, now used as a small conference room, is
rendered on 3 walls. The west wall is of rubble stone with, at
floor level, 3 niches with arched heads of Abbey stone, in a
cusped and moulded C14 style. These are reset and the
mouldings do not match up. Early C18 features inside the
building include dados and window shutters with raised fielded
panels to the 2 ground storey rooms and panels above and below
the windows, which have window-seats.
A fine dog-leg stair to the 1st storey has vase-on-reel
balusters, square newel-posts, moulded handrails, closed
strings and a panelled dado. The treads are renewed. One upper
room has a moulded plaster cornice.

Listing NGR: TL8545764068

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540359

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  For the Record
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair