38, Churchgate Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE CHURCHGATE STREET 639-1/8/251 (South side) 07/08/52 No.38 (Formerly Listed as: CHURCHGATE STREET No.38) (Formerly Listed as: CHEQUER SQUARE No.5)

GV II*

Includes: No.5 CHEQUER SQUARE. House, now offices. c1700. Painted brick; slate roof with a plain eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement. 4 window range: 12-pane sashes in flush cased frames to ground and 1st storeys; 6-pane to 2nd storey. A raised band between the ground and 1st storey windows. Within the plinth at pavement level 3 segmental-arched openings to light the basement with barred cast-iron grilles. An off-centre entry has a fine lead-covered shell hood, supported on ornate console brackets, and a recessed door with 6 raised fielded panels and moulded surrounds, up steps. At pavement level beside the doorway, is a stone-lined recess with an arched head. Adjoining on the east, and now part of No.38, is the former No.5 Chequer Square. Early C19 with an earlier core. White brick, painted on the Churchgate Street frontage; a hipped slate roof with a plain eaves cornice; internal chimney-stack. The Churchgate Street front has a 2-window range, all sashes, 12-pane with flush cased frames to the ground storey, plate glass in shallow reveals to the 1st storey and 6-pane in flush cased frames to the 2nd storey. A single window to each storey on the Chequer Square frontage, 12-pane sashes in shallow reveals, with gauged flat arches and projecting stone sills, to the ground and 1st storeys, a replacement small-paned window to the 2nd storey. A continuous raised stucco band below the 1st storey window. A rectangular basement window at pavement level. Entrance door, up 3 steps, has 6 raised fielded panels, panelled reveals, a plain brick surround with a segmental-arched head and a fanlight with circular glazing-bars. INTERIOR: the cellar below No.38 contains 2 fireplaces and was used as a kitchen. The cellar below the former No.5 Chequer Square is only accessible from No.4 Chequer Square (qv), and Warren's map of 1791 indicates that the 2 houses were formerly

one. No original features are exposed in No.38, but the former No.5 Chequer Square which has a single room on each storey, has early C18 panelling covering the walls of the ground storey room, the long upper panels separated from the dado by a raised moulded band. On the 1st storey is a bolection-moulded fireplace surround and a panelled dado with heavy raised mouldings.

Listing NGR: TL8552364062