Dog And Partridge Inn

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE CROWN STREET 639-1/11/305 (West side) 07/08/52 No.29 Dog and Partridge Inn

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Public house. Early and later C17, C18 and early C19. Timber-framed and rendered; plaintiled roofs. A 4-bay main range with a parallel range behind it and a 2-bay cross-wing. 2 gable-end chimney-stacks on the south. The front of the main range has a jetty with a wide overhang supported on ornate console brackets. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellars; 4 window range: 20-pane sashes in flush cased frames with projecting timber sills. The ground storey has a 3-light canted bay window on the left and a fixed small-pane former shop window on the right with an entrance door between: doorcase with egg-and-dart and bead-and-reel ornament and a moulded cornice supported on console brackets. The rear range is 3-storey with a 3-window range to each storey: 16-pane sashes in flush cased frames, the centre window on the top storey blocked. The cross-wing has an overhang at eaves level with plain supporting brackets; a canted bay rising through 2 storeys has a 3-light small-paned sash window to ground and 1st storeys. An old 2-light latticed casement window with pintle hinges the attic. INTERIOR: the jettied range has the main cross-beams of the ground-storey ceiling exposed, not all of the same scantling, chamfered, with step stops; the partition walls have been removed. On the upper storey, one long room with a boxed-in main beam. The exposed upper timbers of the rear range appear older than the front; good studding to the inner wall and ovolo-moulded main beams. The cross-wing has boxed-in beams and a former end chimney-stack of C17 brick with an ovolo-moulded timber lintel. Behind the stack is a 3-bay C18 extension in brick and flint, formerly with an upper storey, but now open to collar level: clasped purlin roof. Joined to it on the west by a C20 link is a late C18/early C19 former stable block, facing into the rear yard. Walls of flint, brick and stone, painted on the ground storey, rendered above. The original mansard roof has been raised along the south side in a shallow pitch. 3 large 16-pane sash windows to the upper storey in plain reveals; one 20-pane sash to the ground storey. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 151).

Listing NGR: TL8559363861