71, Guildhall Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW GUILDHALL STREET 639-1/15/393 (West side) 07/08/52 No.71

GV II

House. Early C19. White brick; slate roof with a paired wood modillion eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars. 5 window range, arranged 2:1:2 with the centre breaking forward slightly. Moulded stone string courses run between the storeys and the plinth is topped by a stone moulding. The 1st and 2nd storey windows are all 12-pane sashes and the 2nd storey are 6-pane sashes, all in plain reveals with projecting stone sills and flat gauged arches. One 1st-storey window is blank. The central door, up 2 stone steps, has 6 sunk panels with ornate applied mouldings. The wood Doric doorcase has plain reveals, fluted pilasters and a triglyph frieze and cornice. A high white brick wall with 4 plain pilasters spaced along it and a plain stone coping links No.71 on the south to No.70 (qv). Between the centre pilasters is a plain boarded door in plain reveals with a flat gauged arch. At the rear are two 2-storey extensions, both with hipped roofs: on the south in white brick and slates, the other, possibly originally an outbuilding, with weatherboarding and C20 concrete tiles. The back wall of the main range is in red brick with a projecting stair wing. INTERIOR: extensive cellars with C18 timber ceilings, many of the timbers reused, and brick walling with arched recesses. Mainly early C19 features inside with some early C20 alterations to the layout: 6-panel doors with sunk panels; panelled and moulded internal window shutters; moulded cornices in various styles, egg-and-dart, Greek key and paterae. One upper fireplace has an eared architrave and 3 upper rooms have raised 'duck's nest' grates. A winder stair which rises to the attic storey has stick balusters, open bracketed strings and moulded handrails.

Listing NGR: TL8525763951