21-30, WHITING STREET

Nos. 21-30 on Whiting Street in Bury St Edmunds is a terrace of small houses, originally ten but now reduced to eight, built around 1840 by William Steggles. The houses are constructed of white brick with a slate roof and feature a plain eaves soffit. The rear walls are made of random flint and red brick. There are five internal chimney stacks with plain white brick shafts topped with groups of ceramic pots. The end bays and the center of the terrace project slightly forward.

The terrace is two storeys high and has cellars. It has a total of ten windows, featuring 12-pane sash windows in plain reveals with flat gauged arches, except for No. 21, which has 20th-century replacement windows. A raised stone band runs along the first-storey window sill level. Above each original pair of doorways, there are four blank windows spaced across the front. On the ground floor, the windows for Nos. 21, 24, the former 27, and 29 are wider, containing 20 panes, except for No. 21.

There are two end doorways and four pairs of doorways along the row, all with plain semicircular brick arches, stone impost bands, and blank fanlights. Nos. 25 and 26, as well as Nos. 27 and 28, have been combined into single houses, with the former doorways of Nos. 26 and 27 now containing windows. The remaining doors are a mix of partly 4-panel and partly 6-panel designs, except for No. 21, which has a half-glazed 20th-century door. The interior features no elements earlier than the 19th century, apart from the cellars, which likely relate to the previous houses on the site.