18, Abbeygate Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/129 (North side) 12/07/72 No.18

GV II

Shop, formerly a house and shop, probably originally the cross wing of a house with a hall range adjoining. Early C16 core, early C19 front. Timber-framed and rendered; slate roof with a wooden eaves cornice and a plaster frieze with acanthus-leaf decoration. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 2 window range: on the 2nd storey, sashes with heavy glazing-bars, on the first storey, sashes with clear glass, all in cased frames. C20 shop front. INTERIOR: cellar small, brick and flint lined with some blocks of reused stone. Original part of building in 2 bays, set sideways-on to the street and jettied at first-floor level, now underbuilt. Where visible the studs are wide and closely set. There was formerly a stud partition between the 2 bays. The ground storey is high, with only the main ceiling beams and the joist ends of the jetty exposed. In the rear wall is a long shutter-slide and the housings for a 5-light diamond-mullioned window. Embedded near the front of the west wall is round Jacobean wooden column, possibly relating to a C17 porch, but probably not in situ. On the 1st storey the joists are almost all replacements. The top storey is a C19 addition with a roof of shallow pitch. A rear range is in random brick and flint. All the features exposed during restoration in the early 1990s have been covered over again.

Listing NGR: TL8540864224