37 And 38, Westgate Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW WESTGATE STREET 639-1/15/675 (North side) 12/07/72 Nos.37 AND 38

GV II

House and shop. Mid C19. Painted brick with a slate roof and wide eaves soffit. On a corner site with a quadrant corner; forming part of the group with Nos 50 and 51 Guildhall Street (qv). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellars; 4 window range: sashes without glazing bars in plain reveals with flat arches and keystones. No.37 has a central entrance with a 6-panel door and rectangular fanlight in a doorcase with pilasters and flat cornice hood. No.38 has a double shop front with 8-pane windows divided by a transom and a central half-glazed shop door. Embedded in the south wall of No.37 is a pair of C14 timber doorways with steeply arched heads, part of the timber-framed range formerly on the corner of Westgate and St Andrew's Street South. A continuation of the house to which they belonged could possibly be concealed within the present building. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL8528063781