Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW GUILDHALL STREET
639-1/14/401 (West side)
07/08/52 Nos.78 AND 78A

GV II

House, now divided into 2 and containing flats. C16.
Timber-framed; jettied along street frontage; slate roof with
a plain wood eaves soffit.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellar. 3 window range:
irregularly spaced 12-pane sashes in flush cased frames. 3
similarly spaced but slightly longer 12-pane sashes to the
ground storey. 2 flat-headed dormers with small-paned C20
windows. 2 doors, to No.78 6-panel in a plain wood architrave
with a rectangular fanlight with lattice glazing bars and to
No.78A 4-panel with a plain surround and rectangular fanlight.
The joist ends of the jetty are covered by a plain fascia
board.
INTERIOR: cellar below both halves of house is approached from
No.78: it has elliptical barrel-vaulted ceilings of narrow red
bricks; walls part rubble. On the interior of No.78 the
timber-framed core is overlaid by major C19 alterations. A
rear ground storey room has a much altered open fireplace with
only the lintel exposed.
A mid-C18 stair balustrade and 4-panelled doors to the upper
storey. No.78A has one room on each storey and a C20 rear
extension which is probably a replacement of an earlier range.
The main ceiling beam on the ground storey is boxed in; the
corresponding beam on the 1st storey has a double ogee
moulding. No access to the roof.

Listing NGR: TL8524864014

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26645536

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)