28 And 28A, Cornhill

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW CORNHILL 639-1/7/287 (West side) 12/07/72 Nos.28 AND 28A (Formerly Listed as: CORNHILL (West side) Nos.28 AND 28A The Griffin Restaurant)

GV II

Formerly known as: The Griffin Public House CORNHILL. Formerly part of a public house, now divided into 2 shops. Early C18 with a C19 front and C20 alterations. Timber-framed; fronted in painted brick, terminating in a rounded corner to Brentgovel Street, with a plain parapet and stucco cornice with oversailing bands. Tiled roofs with 4 hipped dormers. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellars. 9 window range: sashes without glazing-bars in plain shallow reveals; stuccoed flat arches with keystones. Projecting ledges below the windows have iron guard-rails and are supported by small curved brackets. 4 hipped dormers with 2-light casement windows. The ground storey is divided into 3 sections: 2 timber double shop fronts in traditional style and, rounding the corner, 3 large windows with clear glass, semicircular glazing-bars to the heads and wide flat stuccoed arches with keystones. A fine early C18 corner doorway, now blocked, has a surround with fluted columns, ornate dentilled pediment and frieze and enriched console brackets. Photographs indicate that this striking feature was introduced into the building after 1898, when the corner was substantially remodelled. 2 parallel mid-C17 rear ranges run behind Nos 32 and 33 Brentgovel Street (qv), one used by each of the 2 shops. INTERIOR: No.28 has only one main beam with chamfer and scroll stops exposed on the upper storey. No.28A has all its framing exposed on the upper storey, and the removal of infill between the upper joists means that there is a view into the roof up to collar level. 6 bays with a C19 internal chimney-stack. Jowled main posts with empty mortices for long arched braces; face-halved and bladed scarf joints in the wallplates. The 3 eastern bays have a clasped purlin roof with added collars for a later attic ceiling; the 3 western bays have unstepped butt purlins, also with added collars. The 1st storey ceilings have plain chamfered beams and unchamfered joists set on edge. One bay with exposed timbering

on the ground storey has the same form.

Listing NGR: TL8522064397