Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW GUILDHALL STREET
639-1/14/364 (East side)
12/07/72 No.10

GV II

House. Early C18, with earlier timber-framed core. In red
brick laid in English Bond; remains of red colouring; a
parapet and brick dentil cornice. Tiled roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellar. Vertical bands of
slightly lighter brick outline the windows. 3 window range,
all sashes, 12-pane to the 1st storey and without glazing bars
to the ground storey, all in flush cased frames with flat
gauged arches. 2 segmental-headed dormers have sliding 2-light
small-paned casements. A 4-panel door set in plain reveals has
a rectangular fanlight. A 2-storey rear range.
INTERIOR: cellar, with a double front wall indicating the line
of an underbuilt jetty, has a heavy timber ceiling with
widely-spaced unchamfered lodged joists, chamfered main beams,
and walling of brick, flint and reused stone. Few features
exposed inside: a single main beam with wide chamfer to the
front range, and a rear room with a moulded stucco cornice and
egg-and-dart ornament. The rear range has narrow late-C17 main
beams and some widely spaced studding along the upper north
wall. The end bay may be an extension.

Listing NGR: TL8526764118

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26645517

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6