Numbers 37, 38 And 39 And Attached Walls

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8464SE KING'S ROAD 639-1/6/462 (South side) Nos.37, 38 AND 39 and attached walls

GV II

A terrace of 3 houses, formerly part of the barracks of the West Suffolk Militia Regiment. 1857/8. By RM Phipson in partnership with G Morgan. In dark red brick with blue headers and lighter red brick dressings. Hipped slate roof with a wide eaves soffit. Elizabethan style, and in similar, but plainer, style to Nos 28 to 33 King's Road (qv). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 15 window range, arranged 3:2:3:2:2:3, all single-light casements with horizontal glazing-bars in slightly pointed brick surrounds with stone sills. High internal sawtooth chimney-stacks each have a row of tall terracotta pots. Rear has 3 paired ground and first-floor windows to each house. INTERIOR: not inspected. Low red brick boundary walls along the frontage have stone copings and higher dividing pillars with conical stone caps. HISTORY: the 1853 Militia Act required each county to provide NCO accommodation and a secure store for arms. These houses may be the former. An unusual design, which forms part of a group with the adjoining Nos 28-33 (qv). (Harrods Directory of Suffolk 1864: Ipswich: 1864-: 158; Brown C, Haward B & Kindred B: Dictionary of Architects of Suffolk Buildings 1800-1914: Ipswich: 1991-: 158).

Listing NGR: TL8485664136