8-11, College Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW COLLEGE STREET 639-1/15/269 (East side) 07/08/52 Nos.8-11 (Consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE STREET (East side) Nos.8-11 (Consecutive) William Barnaby Almshouses, 1826)

GV II

A terrace of 4 houses, formerly the William Barnaby Almshouses. 1826, rebuilt by William Steggles, on the site of a C16 foundation. In Tudor style. White brick front with stone quoins and dressings; red brick rear. Slate roofs with a brick dentil cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 8 window range, arranged 3:2:3, with the centre breaking forward slightly under a brick dentil pediment which has a central plaque inscribed 'Given by William Barnaby 1571 Rebuilt 1826'. The windows are all 2-light casements in Tudor style with ornate leaded panes and arched heads to lights, stone mullions and dripmoulds. A raised stone band runs between 1st and ground storeys. 4 recessed doors spaced across the front have stone dripmoulds and chamfered brick reveals. No.8 has 3 stone steps and No.9, 2. 4-panel doors with 2 leaves, the upper panels with applied mouldings which match the window tracery. 2 end and 3 internal chimney-stacks with plain rectangular shafts. The fenestration along the rear wall is all C20 replacement and includes 2 small-paned windows with intersecting Gothick-style tracery to the ogee heads. These almshouses, originally intended for 8 women and 8 men, are sold, and used as a builders' merchants warehouse from 1954 until 1978. They were restored as 4 privately-owned houses in 1980/81.

Listing NGR: TL8543763988