72, Guildhall Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW GUILDHALL STREET 639-1/15/394 (West side) 07/08/52 No.72 (Formerly Listed as: GUILDHALL STREET (West side) Nos.72 AND 73)

GV II

House. C18 front, early C17 and early C19 rear. Timber-framed and rendered with raised roughcast panels; plaintiled mansard roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellar. 2 window range: 12-pane sashes in flush cased frames to both storeys. 2 flat-headed lead covered dormers have 6-pane sash windows. A 6-panel door with the top 2 panels glazed, up steps, has a wood doorcase with plain reveals, panelled pilasters and pediment. An internal chimney-stack has a plain square red brick shaft with chimney-pots. A long rear range in 2 phases of building. INTERIOR: cellar below whole of front range: walling with some old flint and render, but mainly C19 brick with various niches inserted in 2 stages. Timber ceiling, part C18, part with reused earlier joists. C18 front range in 2 bays with a C20 division into 2 rooms. All earlier partitions removed, but the present entry, formerly into a narrow early C19 corridor with a semicircular-headed rear archway, may well be in the original position. Fireplace with a mid-C18 eared wood surround. An early C19 stair has stick balusters, closed strings, rounded newel posts and a curved handrail. A C17 2-storey rear wing in 2 bays has the main components and some studding exposed on the upper storey; roofs covered. Extending from this wing an early C19 range in flint and brick with a mansard roof, said to have been used initially as a corn store.

Listing NGR: TL8525763962