Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW THE TRAVERSE
639-1/14/632 Nos.3A AND 3B
12/07/72
(Formerly Listed as:
THE TRAVERSE
(East side)
No.3)

GV II

House, now divided into 2 shops on the ground storey with
storage above. C16, with C18 alterations. Timber-framed and
rendered; plaintiled mansard roofs; a modillion eaves cornice
to the main front.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 3 windows to the 1st storey and 2 to the
2nd storey, all sashes without glazing-bars in flush cased
frames. The rear elevation to Skinner Street has the mansard
roof jettied out above the 2nd storey and indications of a
former jetty to the 1st storey also. Roughcast to both
storeys; rendered in the apex of the gable. Sash windows,
partly small-paned.
INTERIOR: the cellar runs below both halves of the front.
Heavy C16 cross-beams, chamfered, supported by timber posts at
front and rear. Substantial joists set on edge. Brick walling,
the bricks of various dates and 2 short vaulted sections
running below the street. Few timbers exposed inside, none
within the shops. The mansard roofs are a C18 addition.

Listing NGR: TL8527664309

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26439119

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  For the Record
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  Cornwall (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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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)