Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW GUILDHALL STREET 639-1/14/365 (West side) 12/07/72 No.11

GV II

Formerly a house with 2 shops, now offices. Early C16 with C18 rear and early C19 front. Timber-framed and rendered; old plaintiled roof with a wood modillion eaves soffit. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellar. 3 sash windows to the upper storey, 2 with single vertical glazing-bars one without glazing bars, tripartite. One segmental-headed dormer has a small-paned tripartite sash window and lead roof. On the ground storey, 2 mid-C19 shop fronts: on the left, the shop window is divided by vertical bars into 3 lights; surround with plain pilasters, projecting cornice and fascia, supported by ornate console brackets. The former shop door on the left has been made into a window. The smaller shop window on the right has a similar but plainer surround and less ornate supporting console brackets. The main doorway has plain pilasters and an open pediment; 6-panel door. A 3-storey C18 rear wing has a half-hipped mansard roof: large 30-pane sash windows to the ground and 1st storeys, a 3-light small-paned casement to the attic and a 2-light dormer in the slope of the half hip. INTERIOR: C17 cellar below the front range: walling in flint rubble with stone blocks and a timber ceiling with joists set on edge; C18 cellar below rear range. One main post exposed on the ground storey front; on the upper storey, a 4-bay room has a beam with reversed assembly, which may replace a former partition. The end wall on the north has exposed framing and evidence of a former window with arched spandrels and rebates for shutters. Side purlin roof, part with a ridge and with some re-used components. The mansard roof to the rear range has most of its original timbers.



Listing NGR: TL8526364109

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