63 And 65, St Johns Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564NW ST JOHN'S STREET 639-1/3/609 (East side) Nos.63 AND 65

GV II

House, later divided into 3; now a pair of shops with storage above. C16 and C17 with C19 front. Timber-framed and rendered; jettied along the front; steeply-pitched slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellars. 3 window range to St John's Street: sashes without glazing bars in flush cased frames. A single sash window without glazing bars to the 1st storey of the gable end and a tripartite sash to the apex of the gable. Coving covers the jetty ends. 3 separate shop fronts, 2 now to No.63. 3 entrance doors, 2 near the south end, the other in the north-west corner. INTERIOR: 2 brick-lined cellars below No.63. The 2 C16 bays to the right of the front originally formed one room but are now divided on the line of the open truss between Nos 63 and 65. The southernmost bay (No.63) has cross-beams to the ground-storey ceiling with double ogee mouldings. The beam below the open truss, now on the line of the partition wall, is supported by small shallow arched braces with hollow chamfer mouldings. On the 1st storey the rear main post of the truss has a long jowl and heavy arched brace. Plastered attic. A small rear wing has no visible original features. On the ground storey of No.65 the partition wall with No.63 has plank-and-muntin panelling; on the 1st storey it is faced by square Jacobean panelling. The end bay on the left is an addition of the later C17 with a thick dividing wall, probably of flint rubble, now partly removed to give access. On the 1st storey, a contrast of framing between the 2 bays, the added bay having long straight primary braces, bisected studs and also indications of window alterations on the rear wall. Attics plastered. A 2-storey C18 cottage with internal chimney at the rear, probably originally divided into 2, now forms part of the premises of No.63. It contains no visible features of interest.

Listing NGR: TL8524564584