Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW WHITING STREET
639-1/14/692 (East side)
12/07/72 No.8

GV II

House, now a shop and office. Late C15 and C17 with an early
C18 front. Timber-framed, roughcast, slate roof to front,
plaintiled to rear. 2-bay front range and a later rear wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellars and attics; 2 windows to each
storey, sashes with a single vertical glazing-bar in moulded
flush cased frames, on the 1st storey with eared architraves.
2 flat-headed dormers with lead roofs and cheeks have plain
C20 sash windows. A heavy moulded wooden cornice above the 1st
storey windows with the roof raised above it and a plain eaves
soffit. A central door with 6 raised fielded panels, the top 2
glazed, has a moulded and eared architrave, scotia-moulded
frieze and triangular pediment.
The north side has a projecting former garden wall to 1st
storey level in red brick with an admixture of moulded re-used
Abbey stone blocks. On the ground storey 2 late C20 shop
fronts in traditional style.
INTERIOR: front range with the remains of a crown-post roof,
the crown-post, now embedded in a partition wall, with a
mutilated moulded cap and base concealed by the present floor
level, braced only to the collar-purlin. A section of original
rafters in one bay are visible along the rear slope of the
roof with empty housings for the former collars. The front of
the roof was pushed forward and later raised and is at a
shallower pitch. In the north-east angle a section of upper
framing is exposed: wallplate and tie-beam and an arched brace
halved against the studs; all the timbers have traces of red
ochre colouring.
A chimney-stack against the north wall, in Tudor brick laid in
an irregular bond, has a fireplace only on the ground storey.
The C17 rear wing has the remains of a side purlin roof. A
mid-C19 winder stair to the 1st storey in the south-east angle
has a ramped handrail and stick balusters. A boxed-in beam on
the ground storey is supported by ornate early C18 console
brackets, re-set.

Listing NGR: TL8532664107

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26619128

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