The Masons Arms Public House

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW WHITING STREET 639-1/14/697 (East side) 12/07/72 No.14 The Masons Arms Public House

GV II

Public house. Early C16. Timber-framed; faced in alternating sections of plain and fluted C19 weatherboarding. Shallow pitched roof of asbestos slates. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellars; formerly with a hall range and 2 cross-wings. 4 window to the 1st storey: 12-pane sash windows in flush cased frames. 3 windows on the ground storey: 2 tripartite sashes and one plain sash, each with a single vertical glazing bar to the main lights. A moulded architrave and cornice to the doorway. A rendered cross-wing at the rear. INTERIOR: brick-lined cellar. On the ground storey all the ceiling timbers are exposed in the centre 2 bays of the former hall: chamfered main cross-beams with curved stepped stops, unchamfered joists set flat. The cross-wing at the south end has very heavy studding along its north wall with the infill removed, and the centre section is butted up against it with simply a main beam and middle rail to its frame. The rear of this wing now forms part of the back premises of No.15 (qv), which adjoins on the south. The wing on the north has only the main beams exposed. There is said to be no timbering exposed on the upper storey.

Listing NGR: TL8532764060