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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26645518

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)