30, Churchgate Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW CHURCHGATE STREET 639-1/14/244 (North side) 12/07/72 No.30

GV II

House, now a shop with flat above. C16 front range, raised and fronted in the early C19; C17 rear extension. Timber-framed, with old roughcast render; painted brick to the ground storey; slate roof with plain eaves soffit. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. One window to each storey: a 16-pane sash in a heavy, slightly projecting cased frame to the 1st storey and a smaller sash in a similar frame with a single vertical bar to lights to the top storey. The ground storey has a 16-pane sash in plain reveals with a stone sill. A C20 small-paned entrance door on the left in a semicircular brick arched opening has an original fanlight over with tracery in 3 intersecting circles. A wide gable to the rear range, which is shared with No.31 (qv) adjoining. INTERIOR: the cellar, which also extends into No.31, has walling of rough squared stone blocks and a replaced timber ceiling with a large re-used main beam. On the ground storey the studding of the rear wall of the front range has been exposed and the infill removed: the studding is substantial, most of it re-used; one stud was part of a wallplate, with housings for the rafter-ends.

Listing NGR: TL8547964096