45 And 45A, Crown Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE CROWN STREET 639-1/11/315 (West side) 07/08/52 Nos.45 AND 45A (Formerly Listed as: CROWN STREET (West side) No.45)

GV II*

House, later divided into 2. Early to mid C18 with early C19 alterations, including the addition of the top storey. In red brick with lighter red brick to the top storey and to the dressings of the 2 lower storeys. Plaintiled roof, in 2 parallel ranges with a valley gutter between, has slate to the slope of the hips on the south side, a cement-rendered parapet, and stone modillion cornice. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement. 5 window range: 12-pane sashes to the 1st and 2nd storeys and 9-pane to the top storey, all in flush cased frames. The 4 basement windows, which are set within the plinth, are segmental-headed, 2 with 9 panes, 2 with 6. The wide central doorway is approached up a flight of stone steps with cast-iron wreathed handrails; similar railings are carried round the basement area. The central doorcase has 3 columns with enriched capitals, stilted friezes and an open pediment and now contains two 4-panelled Edwardian entrance doors. Deeds of the house indicate that the house was divided into two c1900 and the doorcase has evidence of careful alteration. The rear frontage has a wooden modillion cornice and a 5-window range: 12-pane sashes to the ground and 1st storeys and 6-pane to the top storey, all in flush cased frames. It formerly had a central doorway with a plain surround and bracketed open pediment, but this is now obscured by a single-storey extension of the early 1970s, and may have been removed completely. INTERIOR: of No.45A has evidence of alteration to the layout, both in the early C19 and when the property was divided into 2. Part of a plain early C19 stair remains; on the half landing and 1st storey there is a blocked timber arch in Classical style and a plaster cornice and frieze in which metopes alternate with Greek urns.

Listing NGR: TL8556163986