30, Out Westgate

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW OUT WESTGATE 639-1/10/520 (North side) 12/07/72 No.30 (Formerly Listed as: OUT WESTGATE (North side) No.28 St Peter's Vineyard)

GV II

House, now offices. C18, with C19 extensions. Flint with red brick dressings; stone quoins to the C19 extension; plaintiles with ornamental crest tiles; a coved wood eaves cornice to the C18 range. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellar and attics to the main range; 2 storeys to the C19 extensions. 4 windows to the C18 range, with the 2 outer 1st storey windows blocked; the remainder have sashes with a single vertical glazing bar, apart from one 12-pane ground storey window. 2 segmental-headed dormers have 3-light casement windows. The doorway has a wood architrave and panelled reveals. The C19 extension on the south has a hipped roof over the gable end and a square Edwardian mullion-and-transom bay window to the ground storey. An open porch in the angle between the 2 ranges has heavy moulded balusters in Jacobean style. Set into the wall above the porch are plaster casts in high relief, one showing a man with a plough and farm animals and the other a woman with sheaves of corn. These are the casts for the figures in the pediment above the Corn Exchange, Cornhill (qv). INTERIOR: the extensive brick-lined cellars were used during the 1939-45 War as an Air Raid Wardens' post. Original features inside the house are mainly concealed. One upper fireplace has a reeded marble surround with paterae.

Listing NGR: TL8513863737