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Latitude: 52.2431 / 52°14'35"N
Longitude: 0.7119 / 0°42'42"E
OS Eastings: 585249
OS Northings: 264010
OS Grid: TL852640
Mapcode National: GBR QF0.6V2
Mapcode Global: VHKD4.9W7B
Plus Code: 9F426PV6+6Q
Entry Name: 77, Guildhall Street
Listing Date: 12 July 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1363714
English Heritage Legacy ID: 466873
Location: Bury St. Edmunds, West Suffolk, Suffolk, IP33
County: Suffolk
Civil Parish: Bury St Edmunds
Built-Up Area: Bury St Edmunds
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Bury St Edmunds St Mary
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW GUILDHALL STREET
639-1/14/400 (West side)
12/07/72 No.77
GV II
House and shop, now a house. Fronted and raised in the early
C19; C16 core. Timber-framed core, faced in red brick, painted
on the ground storey; render to sides; slate roof with a wide
paired modillion eaves soffit. Gabled wing at rear.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 2 window range: 12-pane sashes
to the 1st storey, 6-pane to the 2nd storey, with a single
vertical glazing bar on the ground storey, all in deep
reveals. A raised brick band below the 1st and 2nd storey
windows. The sashes on the ground storey are paired, with a
stucco surround and the remains of a shop fascia with small
ornate console brackets.
2 adjacent matching doorways, both up steps in
semicircular-headed brick arches: one 6-panel, the other, on
the left, half-glazed and now giving access to No.76A (qv) at
the rear of No.76 (qv).
INTERIOR: cellar with old rubble walls to part, the remainder
C19 brick lined, all brick vaulted. Front range in 2 bays with
the main ceiling beams only exposed: wide chamfers, triangle
stops, cut off tenons for a former partition wall in the
cross-beam. On the upper storey the main beam is partly boxed
and has step stops.
An internal chimney-stack links the front range with the rear,
in 2 short bays jettied along the south side, the joist ends
exposed and supported by small solid brackets. On the upper
storey a cambered tie-beam to the open truss. This rear range
now forms part of a wide gabled wing half of which belongs to
No.78 (qv), adjoining on the north. The top storey is an early
C19 addition.
Listing NGR: TL8524964010
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