Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW WHITING STREET
639-1/14/728 (West side)
07/08/52 No.83

GV II

House. Early C16 and early C17, fronted and raised in the C18.
Timber-framed and rendered; slate roof. A 2-bay front range,
originally jettied, and a long rear range in 2 phases with an
internal chimney-stack linking front and rear.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars; 3 window range: all sashes in
flush cased frames, with a single vertical bar to lights on
the ground and 1st storey and with 12 panes on the 2nd storey.
The off-centre door with 6 raised fielded panels has a plain
architrave and a flat pediment supported by solid console
brackets.
The rear range is in 5 bays, with the 2-and-a-half jettied
bays to the east now underbuilt in brick. The remains of good
external studding now rendered; evidence of former
ovolo-moulded mullioned windows along the south wall. The
roof, raised in the C19, is slated.
INTERIOR: both ranges have cellars: that below the front range
rendered, with several wide brick-lined niches, apparently
contemporary with the frame above. The ground storey of the
2-bay front range is divided by an early C18 panelled
partition into 2 rooms, but was originally one. Both rooms
have main beams with multiple roll-mouldings, curved stops,
and evidence for an underbuilt jetty. The remains of re-set
Jacobean panelling in both end walls. Paintings, thought to
date from the early C16, were discovered during restoration in
1991 behind the panelling on the north wall. The painting
covers both plaster and studs of what is the shared partition
wall with No.84 (qv) with a formalised repetitive pattern of
fruit, leaves and diagonal bands of lettering, now illegible.
All 3 ground storey windows have boxed pull-up shutters in
good condition.
The chimney-stack on the rear wall of the north bay has a
timber lintel with multiple roll mouldings and leaf stops; red
ochre colouring and lining over the brickwork. On the upper
storey the partition wall has studding exposed with a single
long brace at one end. The end wall on the north has only the
main components of the frame and was built up against a
pre-existent building.
The top storey is a C19 addition. A hall at the rear is paved
with stone flags and leads to the 2-storey timber-framed range
at the back. The rear range is in 5 bays, the 3 early C16

eastern bays originally jettied, the other 2 bays an unjettied
C17 addition. The older bays have exposed studding along the
north wall, heavy unchamfered joists set flat, and main posts
with the jowls hacked off. The internal chimney-stack which
links the 2 ranges has a large open fireplace on this side
with a plain chamfered lintel, cut-off stops, traces of red
ochre colouring on the brickwork and 2 pointed niches, one set
very high.
Along the north wall an inserted 5-light window with roll and
cavetto mouldings to the mullions and narrow iron bars
between. Partitions throughout the whole rear range were
removed or resited in the mid C19, when the roof was raised
and slated at a shallow pitch.
From 1758, the first year of surviving rating assessments,
until his death in 1762, this house was owned and occupied by
Thomas Warren senior, the surveyor who produced a fine printed
map of the town in 1747. He was succeeded by his son Thomas,
also a cartographer,who lived in the house until his death in
1805.

Listing NGR: TL8529864104

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561569

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