6, St Johns Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ST JOHN'S STREET 639-1/7/598 (West side) 12/07/72 No.6

GV II

House; now shop and offices. C16 with C18 front and C19 alterations. Timber-framed and rendered; steeply-pitched slate roof with wide eaves and a moulded plaster cornice. L-shaped plan with a contemporary rear wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; 2 window range: sashes in flush cased frames with a single vertical glazing bar to lights. One similar window on the ground storey and a wide C19 double shop front with glazing bars which overlaps with the adjoining No.7 (qv). 2 gabled dormers have sashes with vertical glazing bars and plain bargeboards. A 6-panel door in a plain wood architrave has a rectangular fanlight with vertical glazing bars. A heavy blind box above the door and shop fascia and a scrolled cast-iron bracket for a hanging sign projecting between the upper windows. At the rear, the 2-storey timber-framed C16 wing is rendered and roughcast, with C20 plaintiles and an end chimney-stack. A small 2-storey C19 extension has a shallow-pitched slate roof. INTERIOR: no cellar. Front range originally jettied, in 2 wide bays, divided into 2 rooms with exposed main beams on the ground storey with shallow double roll mouldings. A similar moulding to the main beam in the rear wing. A beam with ogee moulding and a cresting which is set near the front wall of the northern bay may be a reversed fascia beam which covered the joist ends of the former jetty. The upper rooms are high, with only plain main ceiling beams exposed; a corner fireplace in one room. Plastered attics.

Listing NGR: TL8522064494