27, Churchgate Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW CHURCHGATE STREET 639-1/14/241 (North side) 07/08/52 No.27

GV II

House, now offices. C17 core; modernised c1690 and again in the early C18. Timber-framed, fronted in brick panelled in 2 shades of red; roughcast-rendered sides and rear. Plaintiled roof, hipped on the north side, with a wide moulded and dentilled wooden eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and cellar. 4 window range: all 12-pane sashes in moulded cased frames with slightly projecting timber sills. The windows are set into vertical panels of light-coloured red brick and have gauged heads, but straight joints in the brickwork below the sills indicate that they are replacements set at a higher level than the original fenestration. The panels between the windows are in a dark red brick laid in header bond. One segmental-headed lead-covered dormer has a 6-pane sash window. The recessed off-centre entrance door, up 3 stone steps, has 6 raised fielded panels, unusually with the centre panels smaller, and a surround with moulded architrave and panelled reveals. INTERIOR: the cellar, now used as a small conference room, is rendered on 3 walls. The west wall is of rubble stone with, at floor level, 3 niches with arched heads of Abbey stone, in a cusped and moulded C14 style. These are reset and the mouldings do not match up. Early C18 features inside the building include dados and window shutters with raised fielded panels to the 2 ground storey rooms and panels above and below the windows, which have window-seats. A fine dog-leg stair to the 1st storey has vase-on-reel balusters, square newel-posts, moulded handrails, closed strings and a panelled dado. The treads are renewed. One upper room has a moulded plaster cornice.

Listing NGR: TL8545764068