2, Friars Lane

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW FRIARS LANE 639-1/15/354 (West side) 02/09/85 No.2

GV II

A pair of cottages, now made into one house. C18; deeds said to go back to 1760. Timber-framed with roughcast rendering; C20 pantiles; plain bargeboards. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with a one-and-a-half storey lean-to along the rear. 2-window range. Externally the building still has the appearance of 2 cottages. An internal chimney-stack with a large square red brick shaft. 2 sash windows to the ground storey with flush frames and 2 vertical bars to lights; two 2-light small-paned casement windows to the upper storey. 2 late C20 8-panel doors in plain rectangular surrounds. INTERIOR: the 2 halves of the building are linked by one communicating door only and their original cottage layout is virtually unaltered. Each half has a corridor leading from the entrance door to the kitchen area in the rear lean-to and a single living-room with the staircase behind it. There is a bedroom over the living-room and another in the lean-to. Each living-room has a main ceiling beam, with small chamfer and simple stops, exposed. A pair of cottages of this date is a rarity in Bury St Edmunds.

Listing NGR: TL8543563742