86, Whiting Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW WHITING STREET 639-1/14/731 (West side) 12/07/72 No.86

GV II

House, now consulting rooms and offices. C17; late C18 front with a parapet and cornice with paired mutules. Plaintiled roof. A large internal chimney-stack with a plain rectangular red brick shaft. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellar and attics; 3 window range: sashes with a single vertical glazing bar in flush cased frames. 2 flat-headed dormers. A 6-panel door with a plain rectangular fanlight has a wood doorcase with a cornice supported on enriched console brackets. INTERIOR: cellar below the whole of the front range, mainly in rubble flint and old render with a vaulted brick arch at one end and stone blocks in the north end wall. The timber frame is in 4 bays with the main components exposed on the 1st storey: main posts with long jowls; a cambered tie-beam at the south end, possibly related to the adjoining house; the remaining tie-beams chamfered with curved stops. A 3-storey C19 rear range in painted brick has a pitched slate roof. 2 window range: 12-pane sashes to 1st storey with segmental-arched heads and deep reveals; C19 casement windows in flush frames to 2nd storey. An end chimney-stack on the north with a plain rectangular red brick shaft. The front and rear ranges are linked by an early C19 stair with stick balusters, wreathed handrails and column newels which divides into 2 flights at the half landing.

Listing NGR: TL8530164130