87, Guildhall Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW GUILDHALL STREET 639-1/14/408 (West side) 12/07/72 No.87

GV II

House, now offices. Mid C19, with the remains of a C17 rear range. Red brick; slate roof with a wood modillion eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 4 window range: all sashes, with single vertical glazing bars in plain reveals, stucco flat arches with keystones, and projecting stone sills. A raised stucco band runs at 1st storey window-sill level. A semicircular doorway with a recessed inner arch, both moulded, has plain reveals. A footscraper on each side in the angle between the inner and outer arch. 4-panelled door, the top 2 panels sunk, with applied moulded surrounds and a plain fanlight. INTERIOR: a small mainly C19 cellar below part of front. The main range of the house appears all of the C19: a winder stair rises to the attic storey with stick balusters, wreathed handrail and unusually large newel posts. To the right of the entrance the remains of plaster ceiling decoration in a now-divided room. On the upper storey a front and a rear room have walls with raised wood surrounds to plaster panels. At the rear, a high single-storey room has an ornate plaster cornice and centre-piece to the ceiling. A narrow C17 timber-framed wing at the back is enveloped in C20 extensions but has one ovolo-moulded main beam exposed on the ground storey.

Listing NGR: TL8522864144