31, Crown Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE CROWN STREET 639-1/11/307 (West side) 07/08/52 No.31

GV II

House. Mid to late C17 with C18 and later alterations. Timber-framed and jettied; rendered in panels on the upper storey, roughcast on the ground storey. Plaintiled roof with a moulded eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellar. 2 windows to the 1st storey and 3 to the ground storey, all 12-pane sashes in flush cased frames. A 6-panel door up 3 steps with a wrought-iron handrail has a moulded architrave and a small rectangular fanlight with vertical glazing-bars. 2 gabled dormers have 2-light small-paned casement windows. A rear range has twin gables with plain bargeboards and 3 long 8-pane sash windows in flush cased frames. INTERIOR: in the cellar, stone blocks support the base of an internal chimney-stack. The timber frame is almost entirely covered, but the junction of the frame with that of No.32 (qv) on the north can be seen in the attic.

Listing NGR: TL8558763886