89, Whiting Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW WHITING STREET 639-1/14/733 (West side) 12/07/72 No.89

GV II

House, now offices. C17 and early C19. Timber-framed core; brick front, now painted. Plaintiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellar and attics; front in 3-and-a-half bays with a large internal chimney-stack. 3 window range: 12-pane sashes in flush cased frames. 2 early C19 shop windows to ground storey with glazing-bars, plain pilasters and cornices. 3 flat-headed dormers, 2 with 2-light single bar casements, one on left with a small-paned sliding sash window. A C20 glazed central door with an early C19 doorcase has narrow reeded pilasters and a shallow cornice. INTERIOR: cellar, below the right half of the front, with walls of flint rubble and brick, rendered, has a heavy supporting timber ceiling with joists set flat. This has been used as a bakehouse/brewhouse and has a large timber lintel to a former fireplace, partly infilled by a later copper, etc. On the ground storey the stack has been tunnelled through to give access to the rear. To the left of the entry is a fragment of timber partition wall; the remaining timbers are concealed or boxed in. On the 1st storey, the remains of a large timber lintel on the right side of the stack and 2 boxed-in main beams not related to the position of the stack. To the left of the stack the floor level is lower, with main posts and a tie-beam exposed. Roof timbers all covered.

Listing NGR: TL8530164153