31, Churchgate Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW CHURCHGATE STREET 639-1/14/245 (North side) 12/07/72 No.31

GV II

House, now a shop with flat above. C16 interior, raised and fronted in the early C19; C17 rear extension. Timber-framed, with old roughcast render; slate roof with wide plain eaves soffit. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 2 window range: 16-pane sashes in heavy slightly projecting cased frames to both upper storeys. A late C19 shop front with central entry: windows, each divided into 3 lights by slender moulded wooden bars, with panelled bases. A wide C17 rear gable is shared with No.30 (qv). INTERIOR: cellar, linked with and similar to that under No.30, is lined with re-used squared stone blocks mixed with some rubble stone and flint. A later extension below the road cuts through the front stone walling and has semicircular vaulting. The beams on the ground storey are boxed in, with the exception of some studs in the rear wall from which infill has been removed, but it is clear that the front was originally jettied. There are long rear extensions of various dates with no visible features of interest.

Listing NGR: TL8547964096