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BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW GARLAND STREET
639-1/7/355 (West side)
12/07/72 Nos.7 AND 9

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A pair of houses, formerly 3, the surviving part of a row of 6
almshouses. Rebuilt 1612 on the site of 4 earlier almshouses
destroyed in the fire of 1608. Timber-framed and rendered;
plaintiled roofs.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 4 window range: small-paned 2-light
casements and one additional C20 insertion; 3 windows to the
ground storey, two 2-light small-paned casements, larger than
above, to No.7 and one 4-light early C20 window with transom
to No.9. 3 doors. No.7 has 2 red brick chimney-stacks on the
rear wall; No.9 has a small lean-to extension, an inserted
internal chimney-stack and the remains of an older end stack
on the north.
INTERIOR: a few plain timbers exposed inside. No.7 has one
open fireplace with a plain timber lintel. Chamfered main
beams exposed on the ground storey; later partition walls, but
an original studded partition above tie-beam level within the
roof-space has old wattle-and-daub infill remaining.

Listing NGR: TL8541064421