Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8663SW SOUTHGATE STREET
639-1/12/568 (West side)
07/08/52 Nos.81 AND 81A
(Formerly Listed as:
SOUTHGATE STREET
(West side)
Nos.81, 81A AND 82)

GV II

House, now divided into 2. Later C15, much restored in the
1950s. Timber-framed and jettied; roughcast rendered with
applied mock timbering across the upper part of the front.
Slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; cellar to No.81. The jetty is
supported by 2 small brackets. Ground storey windows with C20
metal casements. Recessed C20 entries with brick surrounds.
Extensions at the rear.
INTERIOR: cellar below No.81 has a C19 vaulted brick roof over
older walls of flint, brick and stone. Framing is exposed
along most of the rear wall of 81 with a middle rail and
widely-spaced studs. A stop splayed scarf in the wallplate and
a shutter slide with a 4-light diamond mullioned window below
it: the mullions are in situ and the sill is unusually wide.
On the ground storey a boxed-in main beam may have part of a
partition wall with a doorhead and the remains of a cross
entry beside it. On the upper storey the cambered tie-beam of
an open truss is supported by heavy arched braces; above in
the attic a cross quadrate crown-post braced only to the
collar-purlin is embedded in the partition wall between the 2
houses. No.81A has no studding exposed, but the main beam and
trimmer on the ground storey have wide chamfers and pyramid
stops, while empty mortices in the soffit of the beam indicate
that there was formerly a wide screen with a cross-entry
beyond it.
In the course of C16 alterations there seems to have been a
reversal of layout between the 2 ends of the building with the
service end shifting from south to north. In the attic storey
of No.81A the crown-post was removed during C20 alterations
but housings in the tie-beam indicate associated studding or
downward-sloping braces.

Listing NGR: TL8608863349

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26562013

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)