Number 42 (West Half)

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW CORNHILL 639-1/7/289 (North side) 18/12/89 No.42 (West half)

GV II

Former lodging range to inn, now largely disused. Early C16, reroofed in the late C19. Timber-framed and rendered; a slightly recessed wall of C16 brick fronting Brentgovel Street; gabled slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2 window range to the formerly jettied Brentgovel Street frontage. The ground storey has C20 plank double doors to a wide entry on the left. The 1st storey has 2 C19 12-pane sash windows flanking a central late- C19 loading doorway, with half-glazed double doors and cast-iron swinging crane, mounted on a heavy timber wall-post. INTERIOR: exposed timber frame in 3 bays with middle rails, studding, jowled wall posts and chamfered wallplates; late C19 roof structure. 2 bays of the ground-storey ceiling are visible; heavy chamfered cross-beams and substantial plain joists with barefaced soffit tenons. The 1st storey has evidence for a diamond-mullioned window with rebates for shutters to the north (front) wall, and roll-moulded tie-beams, one of which has arched braces; the roll-moulded binding beams and joists have been remoulded. An original passage along the south (rear) wall, with a braced post defining the north side, was probably built as a gallery overlooking the rear yard of Moyses Hall (qv). The easternmost ground-storey bay is at present within No.42 (east half) (qv), where none of the structure is visible. This building is of considerable significance in the history of Moyses Hall, as it implies that at least part of the complex was in use as an inn c1500.

Listing NGR: TL8529964388