77, Guildhall Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW GUILDHALL STREET 639-1/14/400 (West side) 12/07/72 No.77

GV II

House and shop, now a house. Fronted and raised in the early C19; C16 core. Timber-framed core, faced in red brick, painted on the ground storey; render to sides; slate roof with a wide paired modillion eaves soffit. Gabled wing at rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 2 window range: 12-pane sashes to the 1st storey, 6-pane to the 2nd storey, with a single vertical glazing bar on the ground storey, all in deep reveals. A raised brick band below the 1st and 2nd storey windows. The sashes on the ground storey are paired, with a stucco surround and the remains of a shop fascia with small ornate console brackets. 2 adjacent matching doorways, both up steps in semicircular-headed brick arches: one 6-panel, the other, on the left, half-glazed and now giving access to No.76A (qv) at the rear of No.76 (qv). INTERIOR: cellar with old rubble walls to part, the remainder C19 brick lined, all brick vaulted. Front range in 2 bays with the main ceiling beams only exposed: wide chamfers, triangle stops, cut off tenons for a former partition wall in the cross-beam. On the upper storey the main beam is partly boxed and has step stops. An internal chimney-stack links the front range with the rear, in 2 short bays jettied along the south side, the joist ends exposed and supported by small solid brackets. On the upper storey a cambered tie-beam to the open truss. This rear range now forms part of a wide gabled wing half of which belongs to No.78 (qv), adjoining on the north. The top storey is an early C19 addition.

Listing NGR: TL8524964010