15, Eastgate Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE EASTGATE STREET 639-1/8/334 (North side) 01/08/69 No.15 (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET (North side) Nos.13 AND 14-16 (Consecutive))

GV II

House; now a shop with living accommodation above. Early C17. Timber-framed and rendered; C19 fishscale tiles with ornamental ridge-tiles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. 3 window range: sashes with a single vertical glazing-bar in flush cased frames. A late C20 double shop front to the ground storey. One flat-headed dormer with rendered cheeks and 2-light small-paned casement windows. A lower wing at the rear is plaintiled and in 2 structural stages, the earlier in 2 timber-framed bays. INTERIOR: in 2 bays, originally divided into 2 rooms on each storey, but with the ground storey now all one: the central ceiling-beam has empty mortices for a partition wall. The ground-storey room to the left was heated, and still retains an open fireplace which has a plain chamfered timber lintel with lamb's tongue stops. The main ceiling-beams are similarly chamfered and stopped. On the upper storey, the dividing partition wall has been moved and the tie-beam has empty mortices. Rafters covered in the attics.

Listing NGR: TL8588164468