Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW CHURCHGATE STREET
639-1/14/247 (North side)
No.34

GV II

House and shop. Early C18 with C19 alterations; C16 core to
part. Timber-framed, rendered and lined; hipped pantiled roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar; on a corner site with a long
side frontage to Angel Lane. 2 window range: both upper
windows are late C19 or C20 replacements, one a sash window
with a single vertical bar. A raised stucco band between the
ground and 1st storeys is almost entirely covered by the
fascia of the shop front. The front has a single window
divided into 3 lights by vertical mullions and a transom, with
a shop door on the right and a house door on the left, both
half glazed, in doorcases with plain pilasters. A cast-iron
foot-scraper in a semicircular-headed recess beside each door.
An end chimney-stack has a high narrow red brick shaft. The
long 2-storey range down Angel Lane is roughcast with 4 upper
windows on different levels, all small-paned sashes in flush
cased frames; a variety of ground-storey windows, one an old
fixed small-paned former shop window with a door beside it. At
the north end a small single-storey brick extension contains
its original brick oven.
INTERIOR: extensive cellars with flint rubble walling and
heavy timber ceilings and a timber-framed partition wall; an
arched recess at the rear has the remains of a well. The
present shop and the room above it each have early C18
panelling to the walls and a corner fireplace with a
bolection-moulded surround.
A large rear upper room has full height bolection-moulded
panelling and fireplace surround and a moulded plaster
cornice. The panel above the fireplace contains a C18 oil
painting of a hunting scene.
A fine early C18 dog-leg stair and balustrade has
barley-sugar-twist balusters, square newels, moulded
handrails, closed strings and panelled dado. The roof over the
main part of the building was replaced in the C19 at a higher
level. On the west side there is an overlap with the adjoining
house, and the entrance door to the left of the shop leads
into a narrow passage with a C16 multiple-moulded main beam
and a trimmer beam which extends into No.33.
The narrow room above is on a lower level than the rest of the
upper storey and a rear upper room of No.33 is approached only
from the upper storey of No.34. The large faggot oven at the

rear had been converted to coal firing, but retains its
original cast-iron doors and fittings. A cast-iron panel, said
to come from part of the oven, is now in the main upper room:
it bears a crown and an 8-pointed star and the ornate letters
GR in a roundel with 111 above.

Listing NGR: TL8550164072

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540435

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)