Eastgate Cottage

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE EASTGATE STREET 639-1/8/348 (South side) No.141 Eastgate Cottage

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Cottage ornee. 1862. Walls in a mixture of knapped flint and small stone blocks; stone dressings; bands of dark knapped flint in the gable ends; fishscale tiles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; T-shaped plan. Built on land given by the Earl of Bristol. 3 window range: all windows are small-paned cast-iron casements. On the 1st storey, 2-light, with a smaller central window and the 2 outer windows below small hipped gablets. On the ground storey two 3-light windows with segmental heads to the frames and segmental stone arches with keystones. A central entrance door within a steeply-pitched gabled porch with a stone arched doorway. The east gable has a canted bay to the ground storey with a steeply pitched roof and a 2-light segmental headed window above. Pierced and shaped bargeboards. At the apex of the gable the Bristol crest and date 1862. 4 tall chimney-stacks have rectangular bases and narrower shafts; the oversailing heads are each topped by 2 terracotta pots. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL8583864362