32 And 33, Crown Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE CROWN STREET 639-1/11/308 (West side) 12/07/72 Nos.32 AND 33 (Formerly Listed as: CROWN STREET Nos.32-35 (Consecutive))

GV II

House. Late C16; refronted and divided into 2 in the early C19. Timber-framed and rendered; plaintiled roofs. 2-cell internal chimney plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellar; 2 window range: 16-pane sashes to each storey, all in flush cased frames. 2 segmental-headed dormers with small-paned 2-light casement windows. An internal chimney-stack with a plain rebuilt rectangular red brick shaft. A 2-storey extension behind No.32 has a shallow-pitched slate roof parallel to the front roof with a valley gutter between. INTERIOR: a brick-and-flint-lined cellar below part of No.32 has a large supporting ceiling beam. Exposed studding in the front upper room; the Tudor brick of the stack visible in the attic. The upper ceilings have joists set on edge; the original rafters are halved and pegged at the apex. On the ground storey the main cross-beams have empty mortices for a former partition. No.33 has an open fireplace on the ground storey with a large camber to the timber lintel. The bricks retain quite extensive traces of red ochre colouring and lining. Ceiling-beams boxed in; rafters re-used. An overlap on the upper storeys may indicate that the house once extended further north.

Listing NGR: TL8558463891