3A And 3B, The Traverse

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW THE TRAVERSE 639-1/14/632 Nos.3A AND 3B 12/07/72 (Formerly Listed as: THE TRAVERSE (East side) No.3)

GV II

House, now divided into 2 shops on the ground storey with storage above. C16, with C18 alterations. Timber-framed and rendered; plaintiled mansard roofs; a modillion eaves cornice to the main front. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 3 windows to the 1st storey and 2 to the 2nd storey, all sashes without glazing-bars in flush cased frames. The rear elevation to Skinner Street has the mansard roof jettied out above the 2nd storey and indications of a former jetty to the 1st storey also. Roughcast to both storeys; rendered in the apex of the gable. Sash windows, partly small-paned. INTERIOR: the cellar runs below both halves of the front. Heavy C16 cross-beams, chamfered, supported by timber posts at front and rear. Substantial joists set on edge. Brick walling, the bricks of various dates and 2 short vaulted sections running below the street. Few timbers exposed inside, none within the shops. The mansard roofs are a C18 addition.

Listing NGR: TL8527664309