36, St Johns Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564NW ST JOHN'S STREET 639-1/3/604 (West side) 12/07/72 No.36

GV II

House, now with a shop on the ground storey and offices above. C17. Timber-framed and rendered; old plaintiled roof. An internal red brick chimney-stack has a tall plain rectangular shaft with 4 C19 chimney pots. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics, unusually for Bury St Edmunds, set gable-end to the street and probably originally jettied. A projecting blank gable on the south rises the full height of the roof. Fluted bargeboards to both gables and billet mouldings to the slightly overhanging tie-beams. A tripartite Edwardian sash window to the 1st storey with a single vertical glazing bar to the middle light and a sash window with a single vertical glazing bar in the apex of the gable, both in flush cased frames. Along the south side a small-paned sash window and a gabled dormer with a 3-light casement window. The ground storey has a late C19 double shop front with central recessed entrance doorway and half-glazed door, fascia with dentil cornice, supporting ornate console brackets and panelled stall boards. INTERIOR: a small brick-lined cellar. Frame in 4 bays, including a chimney bay. All features concealed on the ground storey apart from one ovolo-moulded main beam in the rear bay. The 1st storey is divided into 3 one-bay rooms, with the stack between the rear 2. Widely spaced studding and main posts with long shallow jowls; the rear room has an ovolo-moulded main beam; the other 2 rooms have main beams with a plain chamfer and scroll stops with groove. Clasped purlin roof; rafters mainly covered.

Listing NGR: TL8524164702