40, Crown Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE CROWN STREET 639-1/11/312 (West side) 07/08/52 No.40 (Formerly Listed as: CROWN STREET (West side) No.40 St Mary's lodge)

GV II

House. Early C16, refronted in the late C18; modernised in the late 1960s when a large 2-storey extension was added to the rear. Timber-framed and rendered; C20 plaintiles. 2-cell plan, originally jettied along the front. A large internal chimney-stack with a tall narrow shaft of Tudor brick rises from the rear slope of the roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and cellar; 2 window range: 12-pane sashes to the 1st storey and similar larger sashes to the ground storey, all in flush cased frames. 2 segmental-headed lead-covered dormers to the attics with rendered cheeks and 2-light small-paned casement windows. A 6-panelled door with reeded architrave, hood and brackets approached up 3 stone steps with cast-iron wreathed handrails. INTERIOR: the cellar, lined in rubble flint with small stone fragments and render has heavy main ceiling-beams. 2 small pointed-headed niches in the south wall and a fireplace with a timber lintel on the west. The ground storey now has all partition walls removed; boxed-in main beams; open fireplace with a C19 segmental-arched brick surround; the remains of a remodelled C18 stair with bracketed treads in the south-west corner. On the 1st storey, a section of late C17 framing with a straight brace and bisected studs in a cross wall; wallplates, posts and main beams exposed in one front room, one post with empty mortices for braces. The attic storey has main timbers exposed. The attic floor joists are linked to main beams morticed into the main posts well below tie-beam level, so that the attic rooms are higher than they would otherwise be, with a straight section of wall at front and back. This form resembles that found at the rear of No.58 Abbeygate Street (qv), also a 2-bay jettied range.

Listing NGR: TL8557263936