Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET
639-1/14/129 (North side)
12/07/72 No.18

GV II

Shop, formerly a house and shop, probably originally the cross
wing of a house with a hall range adjoining. Early C16 core,
early C19 front. Timber-framed and rendered; slate roof with a
wooden eaves cornice and a plaster frieze with acanthus-leaf
decoration.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 2 window range: on the 2nd
storey, sashes with heavy glazing-bars, on the first storey,
sashes with clear glass, all in cased frames. C20 shop front.
INTERIOR: cellar small, brick and flint lined with some blocks
of reused stone. Original part of building in 2 bays, set
sideways-on to the street and jettied at first-floor level,
now underbuilt. Where visible the studs are wide and closely
set. There was formerly a stud partition between the 2 bays.
The ground storey is high, with only the main ceiling beams
and the joist ends of the jetty exposed.
In the rear wall is a long shutter-slide and the housings for
a 5-light diamond-mullioned window. Embedded near the front of
the west wall is round Jacobean wooden column, possibly
relating to a C17 porch, but probably not in situ. On the 1st
storey the joists are almost all replacements. The top storey
is a C19 addition with a roof of shallow pitch. A rear range
is in random brick and flint. All the features exposed during
restoration in the early 1990s have been covered over again.

Listing NGR: TL8540864224

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614171

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