Horndon House And Stable Block

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW GARLAND STREET 639-1/7/358 (East side) 07/08/52 Nos.62 AND 62A Horndon House and stable block (Formerly Listed as: GARLAND STREET (East side) No.62)

GV II

House, now partly divided into flats. Later C17 with C18 and C19 rear extensions. Timber-framed and rendered; C20 comb pargeting to the upper storey. Plaintiled roof with a wide eaves overhang and plaster cornice; C19 pierced and fluted bargeboards and spike finials. 2 red brick chimney-stacks on the original rear wall have high rectangular shafts and corbelled heads. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellar, 5 window range, arranged 2:1:2 with the centre breaking forward slightly: 12-pane sashes with heavy ovolo-moulded glazing-bars in flush cased frames to the upper storey, and with a single vertical glazing-bar to the ground storey. A raised stucco band runs between the storeys. 3 hipped dormers with cornices have small-paned sliding sashes. The central 6-panelled door in a plain wood surround has a rectangular fanlight with arched Gothick glazing-bars. In the south gable the 1st-storey and attic sash windows have C19 hood-moulds. At the back, a timber-framed and rendered extension on the right has fluted bargeboards to the gable and a canted bay to the upper storey with a steep tiled roof and sash windows. On the left, a 2-storey C19 extension in white brick has 2 sash windows to the upper storey with vertical glazing-bars only. A later C19 single-storey white brick range extending from the south end of the house has a shallow-pitched slate roof and a plain modillion eaves cornice. 6 window range: sashes with a single vertical glazing bar in plain reveals with flat red brick arches and stone sills. A change in the brickwork between the 3rd and 4th windows shows that the range was built in 2 phases. It was originally used as a doctor's consulting room, but is now a separate house. Horndon House was lived in from 1870 by 4 generations of doctors and is still in the same family ownership. INTERIOR: the cellar, below one room only, is lined with stone blocks along 2 walls. The decoration of the main range of the

house is typical of high quality later C17 work. On each side of the entrance the ground storey rooms are fully panelled, with moulded cornices. Most doors are original 6-panel with bolection-moulded surrounds and several corner fireplaces have bolection mouldings. The entry hall contains a very fine open well stair with barley-sugar twist balusters, square newel posts, moulded handrail and panelled dado. Stable Block: linked to the house on the south east. Early C19. Formerly with stabling for 4 horses; the fittings for 3 stalls survive. The front (east) wall of the stable is in white brick; other walls in a mixture of red brick, stone and random flint. The south gable is built into the boundary wall. Slate roof. A wide segmental-arched doorway has a fanlight with radiating glazing bars and a lunette on each side.

Listing NGR: TL8542464472