1, Westgate Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE WESTGATE STREET 639-1/11/662 (South side) 01/10/85 No.1

GV II

House, now offices. Dated 1884. Constructed as a model house by Lot Jackaman, who built the Bury St Edmunds' Corn Exchange, Cornhill (qv). In random knapped flint and sandstone with long-and-short quoins which incorporate medallions. Slate roof with fretted ridge-tiles. High Victorian Gothic. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. 3 window range: most windows have stilted stone hood-moulds with foliated and carved head-stops. Cross windows to the 1st storey with mullions and transoms, stop-chamfered stone arrises and moulded stone sills. The eastern ground storey window is set in a square stone bay with moulded chamfered stone corner columns and rounded moulded parapet. The remaining 2 ground storey windows are irregular in proportion with mullions and transoms. 7-panelled door within a mullioned and transomed screen with glazing bars. The doorway has a hood-mould, splayed jambs and a datestone in a shield above. A simple cornice in Doric style. The east gable, designed to advertise, exhibits a gable finial, decorated window surround, ornate keystone, name stone "Jackaman; Builder, stone and marble mason", balusters, consoles, terracotta ventilators, Ionic capitals, cherub mask and varying stone surface treatments and textures. The west gable has fluted bargeboards, imitation half-timbering and herringbone red brick infill. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL8565463751