Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8663SW SOUTHGATE GREEN
639-1/12/548 Nos.5 AND 6
12/07/72

GV II

A pair of houses; No.5 converted into flats. Early C19 with
later additions. White brick with slate roofs; the north end
wall is in random flint with red brick and stone blocks. Built
on the site of the medieval Hospital of St Petronilla.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 4 window range: 12-pane sashes to the 1st
storey, 6-pane to the 2nd, all in cased frames with plain
reveals. On the ground storey, No.5 has a single 12-pane sash
and No.6 a later C19 bay with a flat lead-covered roof,
moulded cornice and 3 small-paned sash windows. Entrance doors
with fanlights and plain semicircular arched brick surrounds
had large early Victorian Corinthian porticoes added: fluted
columns and acanthus leaf decoration to the capitals of No.5;
plain capitals to No.6. No.6 also has a large late Victorian
extension at the rear.
INTERIOR: No.5 was extensively modernised during its
conversion to flats. No.6 retains many early C19 features,
including a characteristic stair with stick balusters and
wreathed handrail. An ornate plaster cornice in the entrance
hall.
The original rear wall, prior to the later extension, is very
thick and has another thick wall extending westwards from it
with a wide semicircular arch. Both walls are rendered, but
appear to be of flint or stone: they may well be remains from
the church of St Petronilla's Hospital, which an illustration
of 1781 indicates as the only surviving stone building on the
site at that date.

Listing NGR: TL8614063281

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26562054

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