Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564NE EASTGATE STREET 639-1/4/347 (South side) 07/08/52 No.118 Eastgate House

GV II

House, now divided into sheltered flats. C17 core; early C19 front; extensively modernised in the late 1980s. Part timber-framed and rendered with old plaintiled roof; the main range fronted in white brick with a hipped slate roof, wide eaves cornice and paired mutule soffit. EXTERIOR: part 2-storey, part 3-storey; set sideways-on to the street. The 3-storey range has 3 windows to each storey, arranged 1:1:1 with the centre breaking forward slightly: all sashes in plain reveals with flat gauged arches and projecting stone sills, 12-pane to the 1st storey, deeper 12-pane, reaching to ground level, to the ground storey. 6-pane to the 2nd storey, with vertical glazing-bars only. A raised stone band runs at sill level below the 1st storey windows. The central entrance has columns in antis and a segmental fanlight with intersecting glazing bars. Door with 6 raised fielded panels. The north side is directly on to the street. Rendered, with a single sash window to the ground and 1st storeys, both sashes in flush cased frames, 12-pane to the upper storey, 16-pane to the lower. A plaque on one side reads: 'Sir Thomas Hanmer, Speaker of the House of Commons, born 1677, died 1746'. The 2-storey range to the south is rendered, with 3 sash windows, irregularly spaced, to the 1st storey: two 16-pane, one 12-pane, all in flush cased frames. A deeper 12-pane sash to the ground storey in a cased frame with slight reveals. On the right, a 6-panel door with the top 2 panels glazed in a moulded and eared architrave. INTERIOR: few features prior to the early C19 survive inside. The whole range was originally timber-framed; the line of the original wallplate in the brick-fronted section is just below the tops of the 1st storey windows.



Listing NGR: TL8595964504

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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