19, Whiting Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW WHITING STREET 639-1/15/701 (East side) 07/08/52 No.19

GV II

House; now offices. C17 and early C19. Timber-framed and rendered; slate roof with a plain eaves soffit. C20 brick to south gable wall. 3 storeys to front range; EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics at rear. 2 windows to each storey: 9-pane sashes to 1st, 12-pane to 2nd, a single vertical glazing bar to the ground storey, all in flush cased frames. An imposing entrance door at the south end is in a slightly recessed section which appears to be the surviving fragment of an adjoining house. This has heavy fluted Doric columns and a portico supporting an entablature with triglyph frieze and mutule cornice; a 6-panel door with a rectangular fanlight. A rear wing is rendered on the upper storey above a ground storey of Tudor brick which incorporates an end chimney-stack. Plaintiled roof. C20 metal casements. At tie-beam level in the gable a stone face is set into the wall. On the south, a wing at the rear of the entrance passage has been cut down the middle and now has a single-pitch to its roof. INTERIOR: a fine cellar, accessible from No.19, but running below No.18 (qv), has a great deal of re-used stone in its walling and a heavy main ceiling beam. The early C19 front range has a good early C19 cast-iron grate to the 1st storey room. A winder stair within the cut-back rear wing has stick balusters and curved handrail. The main rear wing, early C17, is in 2 long bays, divided into 2 rooms, each with an end chimney-stack. On the west, the stack links with the front range. Both rear hearths have plain timber lintels. Plain main timbers exposed. A fine fitted Jacobean style dresser in the west room. The roof over the rear range is in 6 irregular bays with clasped purlins; rafters covered. 2 small wings lead off it on the north.

Listing NGR: TL8534763994