1, RISBYGATE STREET (See details for further address information)

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW RISBYGATE STREET 639-1/7/525 (South side) 12/07/72 No.1 (Formerly Listed as: RISBYGATE STREET (South side) Nos.1 AND 2)

GV II

Includes: No.65 ST ANDREW'S STREET SOUTH. House, now a shop and offices. c1600 to part, extended and altered in the early C19. White brick; hipped slate roof with a wide eaves soffit and paired modillion eaves cornice. Corner site with a return front at No.65 St Andrew's Street South, which is partly a separate house. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; cellar to part; 3 window range to Risbygate Street: two 16-pane sashes in plain painted reveals and one paired C20 window with 2-light small paned casements, all with flat gauged arches. Three 6-pane sashes in plain painted reveals with flat gauged arches to the 2nd storey. The main entrance door is set back in a doorway with a wide segmental arch, plain recessed Tuscan columns and a fanlight with fan glazing. To the left of the doorway is a C19 shop front with the entrance door on the splay of the corner and a large shop window facing each street. A continuous fascia and moulded cornice is supported by console brackets. To the right of the entrance doorway is a plain C20 shop window. The upper part of the St Andrew's Street South frontage is partly blocked by a large hoarding: 3 windows can be seen on the 1st storey, two 12-pane sashes in plain reveals with flat gauged arches and one C20 2-light small-paned casement. 2 sashes without glazing bars to the 2nd storey and a single 12-pane sash on the ground storey. Entrance door with 6 raised fielded panels in a doorcase similar to that on the Risbygate Street frontage. 2 later 2-storey rear wings. INTERIOR: the offices, to the right of the entrance, occupy both upper storeys of No.1 Risbygate Street. At the west end, one bay of late C16/early C17 framing, with good studding exposed on the end wall on both ground and 1st storeys. An associated rear chimney-stack has an open fireplace with a plain lintel on the ground storey and a plastered upper fireplace with a 4-centred brick arch. Several cupboard doors are made of reused square Jacobean panelling; one upper 2-panel door is bolection-moulded. Internal window shutters have sunk panels.

Listing NGR: TL8517064419