12, Churchgate Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW CHURCHGATE STREET 639-1/14/234 (North side) 12/07/72 No.12

GV II

Shop with flat above, forming one range with Nos 15 and 16 Whiting Street (qv). C16, raised and fronted in the early C19. Timber-framed, with a white brick facade; slate roof with a plain brick parapet and moulded stone cornice. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 3 window range, 1:1:1 with the centre window on each storey blank: 12-pane sashes to the 1st storey in deep reveals with stone sills and flat arches; similar 6-pane sashes to the 2nd storey. On the ground storey one similar sash window and a small C19 shop front with reeded pilasters and cornice. Door up 2 steps. A recessed niche with foot-scraper beside the door. INTERIOR: in 2 bays with an exposed timber ceiling on the ground storey: multiple roll-mouldings to the main beam, cross-beams, and the cornices in the 2 side walls; single roll-moulding to the joists. The boarding between the joists is unplastered. A blocked fireplace in the west wall has a large plain cambered lintel. The small fireplace above on the 1st storey has the brickwork exposed and a cambered timber lintel with the remains of painted decoration in a design apparently of fruit and flowers. In the wall over the upper fireplace a cambered tie-beam with 3 empty mortices for the beams of a former cambered ceiling. Studding along the rear upper wall includes a blocked original window; the main post of the open truss has an empty mortice for a long brace to the tie-beam. The top storey is an early C19 addition. A cellar below the eastern bay is approached by an old winder stair with stone lower treads.

Listing NGR: TL8533464043