7A And 8, College Road

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW COLLEGE LANE 639-1/15/263 (South side) Nos.7A AND 8

GV II

House, now with a separate flat on the 2nd and part of the 1st storey. C16 core; C19 and early C20 alterations. Timber-framed and roughcast- rendered; white brick to ground storey at the west end; slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys: a short cross-wing at the west end with a gabled roof. The main range has 4 windows on the 1st storey, one sash with a single vertical glazing-bar and 3 narrow paired sashes without glazing bars. Two 16-pane sashes to the top storey and also to the ground storey, all in flush cased frames. The recessed 6-panel entrance door to No.8 has 4 sunk upper panels with moulded surrounds and 2 flush lower panels. A heavy wood doorcase with a flat cornice hood. No.7A has a later half-glazed door. The cross-wing has a wide tripartite sash window without glazing bars to the ground storey and a 2-light Edwardian casement window to the 1st storey with small panes to the top lights. Similar windows on the 1st storey along the west side which has a projecting rectangular bay with heavy Edwardian Jacobean mullion-and-transom windows on the ground storey. INTERIOR: a timber frame runs through the whole building but is heavily overlaid with Edwardian work. Most features, including the stair and the heavy 3-light 'Gothic' window on the half-landing, are of late C19 or early C20 date. The wing at the west end has good exposed studding on the 1st storey. A heavily-weathered post in the west wall with a mortice for a window-sill is on the line of the original rear wall, which was removed when a small rear extension and chimney-stack were added. The top storey is also an addition.

Listing NGR: TL8542263936