Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW CHURCHGATE STREET
639-1/14/246 (North side)
12/07/72 Nos.32 AND 33

GV II

House, later divided into 2, formerly with shops. C16 and C17
with C19 front. Timber-framed, faced in old roughcast;
plaintiled roof with a plain wooden eaves cornice.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellars. 3 windows to the 1st
storey: sashes with a single vertical glazing-bar in heavily
moulded flush frames with projecting sills. 2 flat-headed
dormers with 2-light casement windows, small-paned to No.32,
plate glass to No.33. 2 former early C19 shop fronts on the
ground storey: No.32 has a door to one side with reeded
architrave and a pair of linked sash windows with single
vertical glazing-bars in a heavy surround with pilasters and a
fascia cornice; No.33 has a central and a side doorway, each
with reeded architraves, and 2 16-pane fixed shop windows. A
C17 double gable at the rear and various later extensions.
INTERIOR: No.32 has cellars below the front and rear: the
front cellar has one side wall lined with rough stone blocks;
stone and rubble along front; a very large ceiling-beam with
lodged joists, set flat, some reused. The rear cellar has
rubble flint and brick walling and a vaulted ceiling of Tudor
brick. The 2-bay front range has main beams and wallplates
exposed. Jowled main posts. Old oak floor-boards; boarded
attics.
An early C19 rear extension has a sash window and corner
fireplace. The interior of No.33 falls into 2 halves with the
western part of the same early C17 date as No.32. The eastern
half is older; a very fine early C16 main beam exposed on the
ground storey with multiple roll-moulding and leaf stops. This
beam extends through the end wall of No.33 into No.34 (qv),
and there is a curious overlap between the 2 properties which
are thought to have formed a single building at one stage.

Listing NGR: TL8548664075

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540364

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