Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW WHITING STREET
639-1/14/691 (East side)
12/07/72 No.7

GV II

House, now shop and store. Mid C17 core; early C19 front; a
large late C20 extension facing Langton Place. Timber-framed
interior, white brick front; slate roof with paired mutule
cornice to front slope, C20 concrete Roman tiles to rear
slopes.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; framing in 2 ranges parallel
to the street. 3 window range, arranged 1:1:1 with the 2 outer
windows 12-pane sashes and the centre window wider, with
additional narrow side-lights, all in plain reveals with flat
gauged arches. A 6-panel door on the left has a fanlight with
ornamental glazing bars and is recessed within a doubled brick
arch.
On the south side 2 stone steps, with rounded ends to the
treads and wrought-iron handrails, lead to the former garden
door, now used as the shop entrance. This has 2 leaves with
horizontal glazing bars and a wooden blind box above.
INTERIOR: brick lined cellar. The entrance door on left leads
into a narrow passage with a fine mid-C17 open well stair at
the end. This has dumb-bell balusters and newels, ball finials
and moulded handrails and rises the full height of the house.
The principal upper room is panelled throughout with C18
raised fielded panels and a dentil cornice.
The fireplace has a moulded and eared surround in white
figured marble, enclosed by fluted wood pilasters supporting a
triglyph frieze. A similar marble surround to the ground
storey fireplace is moulded but not eared. Clasped purlin roof
to the rear range in 5 bays with only the purlins and collars
exposed.

Listing NGR: TL8533764125

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26619124

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