18 And 19, Guildhall Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW GUILDHALL STREET 639-1/15/369 (East side) 07/08/52 Nos.18 AND 19

GV II

2 separate houses, early C15, now in one commercial occupation. Timber-framed and rendered, jettied along the street frontage; plaintiled roofs with a plain wood eaves soffit. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellar, attic to part. 4 windows to the upper storey, one 12-pane and one 16-pane sash, both in flush cased frames and 2 small-paned 2-light casement windows. On the ground storey, shop windows in traditional style with vertical glazing bars only and a recessed shop door. On the left, a sash window with a single vertical glazing bar in a moulded flush cased frame and a blocked 6-panel door. The joist ends of the jetty are covered with a plain fascia board. 2 one-and-a-half storey rear wings. A gabled dormer in the rear slope of the main roof. INTERIOR: cellar, below No.18, used as offices: walls rendered. One bay below front has a very heavy exposed timber ceiling. There is a marked structural break between No.18 and No.19 with a junction of 2 frames. To the right (No.19) a single bay with a large chamfered main beam and cut off triangle stops. Above, on the upper storey a tie-beam with long arched braces and a peg for a missing crown-post is immediately adjacent to a studded partition wall with long tension braces. The rear wallplate is a later replacement. A Tudor brick chimney-stack with a plain cambered timber lintel links with a 2-bay rear wing on the south, which has exposed timbers on both ground and first storeys with the tie-beam of the central truss removed. A small stair beside the stack has the remains of Jacobean splat balusters and 2 newel posts with open lantern finials. To the left (No.18), in 3 bays, is divided into one 2-bay and one single-bay room on the ground storey with a single open area above. Main beams with a double ogee moulding and run off stops to the single bay ground storey room at the north end which probably extends into another bay in the adjoining house to the north. On the upper storey, 2 open trusses with slightly cranked arched braces to chamfered tie-beams and jowled main posts. A small rear wing on the north has poor quality timbering and a clasped purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TL8527463990