14, Guildhall Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW GUILDHALL STREET 639-1/14/366 (West side) 12/07/72 No.14

GV II

House. C16 and C19. Timber frame to part, red brick to north side wall, render on south; roughcast to front. Slate roof. EXTERIOR: part 2 storeys, part 3 storeys; cellar: the structure falls into 2 separate halves. On the right, one tripartite sash window without glazing bars to each storey, and a shallow moulded and rendered triangular pediment rising above eaves level. On the left, one sash window to each storey, in graduating sizes, all with a single vertical glazing bar, and another narrow sash window without glazing bars to each storey on the splayed northern corner. The 2-panelled entrance door has a wood doorcase with plain reveals, panelled pilasters and an open pediment supported on enriched console brackets. A rear gable to the northern half of the house has random brick walling. INTERIOR: cellar on 2 levels: on the right, brick-walled and higher, on the left with flint and stone walling and a timber ceiling. The northern half of the house forms a 3-bay wing at right angles to the street: main ceiling-beams exposed on the ground storey have a double ogee mould and run-off stops. No part of the frame is visible above the ground storey and the top storey is an addition, of the same date as the southern half of the house, which has no internal features prior to the C19. Both its ground and 1st storey rooms have decorative plaster cornices and friezes with egg-and-dart ornament and repetitive flower and leaf motifs.

Listing NGR: TL8526964038