Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564NE NORTHGATE STREET 639-1/4/500 (East side) 07/08/52 No.112

GV II*

House. Early to mid C18 with C19 remodelling and front. White brick and a black glazed pantiled roof with wood mutule eaves soffit and plain stucco cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar. 5 window range: 12-pane sashes in plain reveals with flat gauged arches. A moulded stucco band runs between the storeys. On the ground storey a wide projecting pedimented porch has pairs of square pillars with responding pilasters and a fluted architrave. The entrance door has 6 sunk panels and is flanked by 2 narrow 6-pane windows. Complex fenestration to the rear, including 6 12-pane sash windows in flush cased frames and 3 wide full-length 12-pane tripartite sashes with diminished side lights and segmental-arched heads, one with the side lights boarded. 3 dormers, one blank, in the rear slope of the roof. At the north end, part of the ground storey wall is in flint and red brick. INTERIOR: cellar below north side of house in 2 linked brick-lined and vaulted ranges, one with a fine double row of numbered wine bins. The interior retains several good C18 fireplaces with carved and eared architraves, notably in the large rear upper drawing room, which also has a good ornate moulded plaster centrepiece to the ceiling. The large entrance hall was remodelled in the early C19 and has a geometric stair with balustrade: stick balusters, ramped and wreathed handrail and open strings with fluted carving. Floor paved with limestone flags. The shallow-pitched attic roof has very large principal rafters.

Listing NGR: TL8557164516

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas