3, St Marys Square

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE ST MARY'S SQUARE 639-1/11/621 (North side) 07/08/52 No.3

GV II

House. C18, with a C15 core. Timber-framed; fronted in red brick; rendered gable at rear; tiled roof, slightly mansard. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellar and attics. 3 window range: 12-pane sashes throughout, but deeper on the ground storey, all in plain reveals with very fine gauged brick arches. 2 flat headed dormers with 2-light single bar casement windows. A 6-panel door and fanlight, with radial glazing-bars and an architrave with panelled pilasters and a flat cornice hood, is set within a semi- circular arched recess with the same fine gauged brickwork as the windows. The 2-storey rear gabled wing has a long C19 single-storey slate-roofed extension. INTERIOR: high cellar with chamfered main ceiling beams and walls with deep narrow alcoves. The front range, apparently basically C17, now has only Georgian features: internal panelled window shutters; stair with stick balusters and wreathed handrail. The rear range, linked to the front by an internal chimney-stack, seems to have been joined to an earlier range at the back of No.2 (qv): a much altered partition has the remains of heavy studding and an original doorway with plain 4-centred arched head. A short section of ceiling-beam has a wide chamfer and curved stops. This range has a crown-post roof, the posts embedded in walling; braced collar purlin exposed, rafters covered.

Listing NGR: TL8574863829