67, Whiting Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW WHITING STREET 639-1/15/721 (West side) 07/08/52 No.67

GV II

House. C16 and C18. Timber-framed and rendered in roughcast panels. Plaintiled roof with modillion eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar; attic to front range. 2 window range: sashes with a single vertical glazing bar in flush cased frames to each storey. 2 hipped dormers with 2-light 4-paned casement windows. Central entrance door up steps with a Gibbs style surround to the doorcase surmounted by a triangular pediment. Plain reveals. 6-panel door with the top 2 panels glazed. An internal chimney-stack links the front with a 2-storey rear wing: this has two 12-pane sash windows to the south side of the ground storey with heavy ovolo-moulded glazing-bars in flush cased frames, and 2 old 2-light 4-pane casement windows to the 1st storey. An end chimney-stack. INTERIOR: a brick lined cellar with some stone blocks and the remains of an original timber ceiling. Plain early C18 front range. The rear wing is in 2 bays, formerly divided into 2 heated rooms, but now made into one, with the infilling between the studs in the partition wall removed, revealing very heavy studding. One fireplace has a plain timber lintel, the other a bolection-moulded surround. On the upper storey, the main timbers are exposed: cambered tie-beams, rebates for shutters in both wallplates; roof covered. The front range has an attic roof in 5 bays, with clasped purlins and straight collars, but rafters covered.

Listing NGR: TL8532063982