6, LOWER BAXTER STREET (See details for further address information)

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/134 (North side) 07/08/52 No.25

GV II

Includes: No.6 LOWER BAXTER STREET. Shop on the ground storey, with restaurant above and offices in the attics; formerly house and shop. The upper storeys also link with those of No.26 (qv) adjoining on the east. Late C17/early C18 with C19 shop fronts. Red brick, laid in Flemish Bond with blue headers; fully hipped plaintiled roof with a very wide modillion eaves cornice; gable end to Abbeygate Street. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and cellars; on a corner site. 5-window range to Lower Baxter Street, the window at the north end a C20 insertion; 2 windows to each gable end, all small-paned sashes in flush cased frames with gauged brickwork to heads. 4 hipped dormers with wood cornices to Lower Baxter Street and one in each gable. A slightly recessed panel of brickwork to the rounded corner and a plain brick band between the ground and first storeys. Edwardian shop front with a corner entry and heavy moulded fascia: the shop windows are each divided into 2 lights by slender cast-iron columns, and similar end columns have moulded caps and bases and ornate spandrels. A matching surround to the recessed glazed shop door. The ground storey of the Lower Baxter Street frontage has 5 windows without glazing bars in original openings, one 3-light window with diminished side-lights, and a 3-panel door with rectangular fanlight, reeded pilasters and patterned cornice. A former stair wing at the north-east corner, later part of No.26, was faced in red brick, with a modillion cornice to match No.25, during extensive restoration c1970. INTERIOR: all original partitions removed on ground and first storey; roof timbers renewed. In the former stair wing a late C17 stair with barley-sugar twist balusters has an additional C20 flight, and all treads and handrails have been renewed. The cellar is extensive and runs below the whole building. It has renewed C20 timber ceilings, but the walling, in a mixture of flint and stone blocks with shallow retaining arches of old brick, may be late medieval.

Listing NGR: TL8545464234