10, Angel Hill

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ANGEL HILL 639-1/14/167 (North side) 07/08/52 No.10

GV II

House. Late C16/early C17 core, early C19 exterior. White brick and slates; mutule eaves soffit; timber-framed fragments inside. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 3 window range: sashes with single vertical glazing-bars in plain reveals with cement flat arches and raised keystones. A cement band runs at 1st storey window-sill level. A C19 door surround has panelled pilasters and a small cornice on stub brackets. A later rear extension has 2 flat-headed dormers in the rear slope of the roof with 2-light 4-paned casement windows. INTERIOR: one exposed chamfered main beam of c1600 in the front range. A good early C19 stair, originally free-standing, but now against the west wall, has slender turned balusters on each side and a plain ramped handrail. A similar flight to the 2nd storey. The principal 1st storey room has a moulded plaster cornice and casing to the main beam. During part of the C19 this house was used as a girls' boarding school. One bay to the left of the entrance door was demolished after being severely damaged by a fire which destroyed the adjoining house to the west in 1912.

Listing NGR: TL8549764318