53 And 54, Churchgate Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8554SW CHURCHGATE STREET 639-1/14/257 (South side) 12/07/72 Nos.53 AND 54

GV II

A pair of semi-detached houses. Early C19. White brick, rendered over on the east gable wall and painted on the facade of No.54. Slate roofs with a wide plain eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellars and attics. 4 window range, arranged 1:2:1 with the 2 outer bays breaking forward slightly: sashes in deep reveals with flat gauged arches. No.53 has one blocked upper window and the remaining windows have a single vertical glazing-bar; No.54 has 12-pane sashes. A raised stone band runs below the 1st storey windows. An entrance door in each of the projecting outer bays has a plain semicircular-headed brick surround with plain reveals, a 6-panel door with sunk moulded panels and a fanlight with radial glazing-bars. 2 lead-covered flat-headed dormers: No.53 with a 2-light casement window, No.54 with a 6-pane sash window. INTERIOR: not inspected. In Thomas Warren's map of 1791 the plot on which these houses stand is shown as open garden ground.

Listing NGR: TL8538464032