Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE SOUTHGATE STREET 639-1/11/574 (West side) 07/08/52 Nos.130 AND 131

GV II

House, later extended and divided into 2. Early C18 with a C19 extension on the south. Both houses have rear extensions of c1960. In dark red brick with lighter red brick dressings; the C18 part has flint rear walling and gables; tiled roofs, with a plain eaves soffit: the C19 south end with a much shallower pitch. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; cellar to part and attics to part. Plain pilasters are spaced across the front. 7 window range: the C18 part has five 12-pane sash windows in flush cased frames with segmental-arched heads, gauged segmental brick arches and brick aprons; the C19 extension has 2 sashes in flush cased frames, one 16-pane and one 12-pane and a tripartite window to the ground storey with a 12-pane central sash, all with flat gauged arches. A raised plain brick band runs between the storeys. An internal chimney-stack and 2 gabled dormers with 2-light single bar casement windows to the older part. Both houses have recessed 6-panel doors, up steps, and rectangular fanlights, No.130 in a doorcase with plain reveals, pulvinated frieze and pediment, and No.131 in a doorcase with panelled reveals, moulded brick pilasters and a pediment with a segmental lower arch. INTERIOR: the building is irregularly divided: the C19 south end and part of the C18 range form No.130 and the remainder of the C18 range is No.131. A brick and flint walled cellar with C19 joists on edge below No.130. Fragmentary evidence of timber walling in No.130 but no clear indications of an earlier core. Most interior features are Georgian.

Listing NGR: TL8587663641

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Recommended Books

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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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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)