Lark House

TL8564SE 639-1/8/480 12/07/72

BURY ST EDMUNDS MUSTOW STREET (South side) Nos.21 AND 22 Lark House (Formerly Listed as: MUSTOW STREET (South side) No.21)

GV II

House, now divided into 2. C17, fronted in the early to mid C19, extensively restored in the 1980s. Timber-framed, encased in white brick; pantiled roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellar and attics. No.21 has two 1st storey 20-pane sash windows in plain reveals with flat stucco arches; one similar window to the ground storey. No.22 has a similar single ground storey window, but the 1st storey windows are narrower 15-pane sashes, set at a lower level. The brick front to No.22 rises above eaves level in a high parapet which contains a 9-pane sash window to the attic. Behind it the apex of the gable of a small original cross-wing is visible. Both houses have similar plain doorways with rendered flat arches; ornate late C20 doors. INTERIOR: No.22: A small flint-lined vaulted cellar with some C19 brick introduced. A few timbers exposed inside, partly reused, some in the upper part of a late C17 rear wing. No.21 not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL8567564348