4A, St Marys Square

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE ST MARY'S SQUARE 639-1/11/624 (North side) 12/07/72 No.4A

GV II

House and office. Built 1811/12 as a Methodist Chapel. Used after 1878 as a stay manufactory and subsequently partly for commercial and partly for domestic purposes. Red brick; fully hipped pantiled roof with a wide paired modillion eaves soffit. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3 window range to the south front: small-paned sashes with semicircular heads, radiating glazing bars, plain reveals and gauged brick arches. A large central C20 entrance has paired pilasters and a heavy cornice hood; glazed double doors. The east front has an upper row of 3 small-paned sashes in plain reveals with flat gauged arches. A lean-to along the rear, which contains the stair to the upper storey, was added after 1878 and incorporates part of the east garden wall of No.4 (qv). A plaque in the wall reads 'This wall belongs to (name illegible) 1827'. INTERIOR: 2 rows of reused C17 timber posts support the upper floor, inserted after 1878 when the building ceased to be used as a chapel. On the upper storey the north wall has 2 former window openings with semicircular heads, one blocked, the other made into a doorway. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 150).

Listing NGR: TL8576263847