Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW GUILDHALL STREET
639-1/15/371 (East side)
07/08/52 Nos.22 AND 23

GV II

House. C17 core, with C18 alterations and early C19 division
into 2. Timber-framed and rendered with a parapet and a
moulded stucco cornice. Plaintiled roof, part C20.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellars. 5 window range:
12-pane sashes in flush cased frames. 3 flat headed dormers
with 2-light small-paned casement windows. 2 matching doorways
have fluted half-columns, friezes and segmental pediments. A
long timber-framed, rendered and plain-tiled rear range to
No.22: 2 storeys and attics. Various 12-pane sashes in cased
frames; one gabled dormer. A double-gabled 2-storey
timber-framed and rendered rear range to No.23.
INTERIOR: cellars, part brick, part flint rubble are
inter-related: that to No.22 in 2 sections, partly modernised,
the rear with a large open fireplace with a timber lintel;
No.23, early C19, brick-lined with timber partitions and
ceiling joists, overlapping with No.22.
No.22, restored 1994, has a front ground-storey room with
mid-Georgian features: wood modillion cornice, panelled walls
with sunk upper panels, fireplace with eared surround and
egg-and-dart ornament, internal window shutters, good door
with 6 fielded panels. The main ceiling-beam is boxed in.
Entrance passage with a good C18 dog-leg stair to one side:
turned balusters, open ornately-bracketed strings, wreathed
handrail. An internal chimney-stack links the front and rear
ranges. The upper rear room, now divided into 2, has the
remains of a 4-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window on the
north wall. Original roof with clasped purlins and cambered
collars.
The entry passage to No.23 runs at the back of a
chimney-stack. On the upper storey, C18 2-panel doors with H-L
hinges, probably reset. The principal rooms have simple
plaster cornices. The gabled rear extension is in very late
framing: straight primary braces and bisected studs. Cambered
tie-beams can be seen on the floor of the top storey, where
the front of the roof was raised in the C18 to accommodate the
cornice.

Listing NGR: TL8527963970

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26645524

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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