Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW WHITING STREET
639-1/14/690 (East side)
12/07/72 No.6

II

House, now offices. C17 core; early C19 front; C20 rear
extensions. Timber-framed and brick fronted, apart from a
rendered panel at the left side with an outsize auctioneer's
hammer and surveyor's rule in high relief above the jetty of
No.5 (qv). Slate roof with a paired modillion eaves cornice.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 2 window range: 12-pane sashes
to 1st, 6-pane to 2nd storey, all in plain reveals with flat
gauged arches. An Edwardian shop window to the ground storey
with glazing-bars in the top lights only. A 6-panel door in
plain reveals, with a rectangular fanlight, has a recessed
foot-scraper on the right.
INTERIOR: cellar, with old render over random flint, stone and
brick, has a timber ceiling with joists set on edge. The
timber-framed interior of the building is in 2 ranges,
parallel to the street.
The ground storey has an early C19 layout with a long passage
leading to the rear and a stair with stick balusters and a
moulded handrail. The passage is lined with low square
Jacobean panelling which has moulded muntins; the rooms have
boxed-in main beams.
On the 1st storey the principal front room has a plain moulded
cornice and is panelled throughout, with raised early C18
mouldings to the panels. There are similar mouldings to all
the door-frames, to the 2-panel doors, and to the whole rear
room, which has a fine bolection-moulded fireplace surround.
The upper part of this fireplace has a blank panel and is
coved above below the cornice with a narrow oil-painting of a
seascape on the slope, an unusual arrangement. Rendered attic
with blocked fireplaces. One window, probably Edwardian, in
the north wall has Gothick tracery to the head and small-paned
casements. A few main C17 timbers exposed on the upper storey.

Listing NGR: TL8532464135

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26619122

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