The Queens Head Public House

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW CHURCHGATE STREET 639-1/14/252 (South side) 12/07/72 Nos.38A AND 39 The Queen's Head Public House

GV II

2 buildings: No.38A formerly a house and shop, but now linked with No.39 as a public house. Mid C19 with an older core. White brick and slates. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys to No.38A; on a corner site. 2 window range to both fronts: sashes in plain reveals with flat gauged arches and projecting stone sills, 12-pane to the 1st storey, 9-pane to the 2nd. Between the 2 fronts, a splayed corner which has a C20 shop front to the ground storey in traditional style, with 2 small-paned windows flanking a half-glazed entrance door below a moulded fascia. To each side of the shop front is a 12-pane sash window and, on the Churchgate Street front, a door. No.39 is 2-storey with extensive cellars. 5 window range: 12-pane sashes to both storeys, all in deep reveals with flat gauged arches and projecting stone sills. The central doorway has a plain semicircular brick arch, fanlight with a fan motif and a half-glazed door with 2 leaves. INTERIOR: the cellars have some walling of kidney flint and stone blocks but are mainly of C19 brick. On the ground storey of both parts of the building boxed-in beams indicate a timber core to the structure, but nothing is visible above ground storey level and both roofs have been replaced.

Listing NGR: TL8549564053