Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8663SW SOUTHGATE STREET
639-1/12/565 (East side)
No.64

GV II

Formerly known as: The Sword in Hand Public House SOUTHGATE
STREET.
House, formerly a public house. Mid C17 with late C18
additions; faced in brick c1910; part rebuilt or added 1935.
Timber-framed; fronted in red brick, rendered on the upper
storey with plain brick pilasters; tile-hanging in the apex of
the south gable; plaintiled roof with a wide eaves overhang
and mutules to the soffit; rear extensions partly in kidney
flint and brick. One original internal chimney-stack and 2
later end stacks, all with plain red brick shafts. 2-cell
lobby-entrance plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellars. 3 window range: 12-pane
sashes to the upper storey and tripartite sashes to the ground
storey, the central sash 16-pane, all in flush cased frames. 2
matching 6-panel entrance doors have wood surrounds with flat
cornice hoods supported by shaped brackets. The ground-storey
windows and the doors have segmental brick arches with
keystones.
INTERIOR: cellar partly brick vaulted with rendered walls over
flint; the south end and the room above it reconstructed in
1935. An internal chimney-stack has 2 back-to-back hearths on
each storey, those on the ground storey much altered, but on
the upper storey nearer their original form. The stack was
tunnelled through to give access to the rear when a parlour
and parlour chamber, for which there is documentary evidence,
were added in the late C18.
The ground storey rooms on each side of the stack have
chamfered main beams with scroll stops. Apart from the main
posts, which have very marked jowls, the front framing has
been removed. A rear extension contains a straight flight of
early C19 stairs with stick balusters. The roof of the front
range has clasped purlins.

Listing NGR: TL8611763348

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26562003

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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