96A And 96B And Attached Wall

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW RISBYGATE STREET 639-1/7/536 (North side) 09/06/97 Nos.96A AND 96B and attached wall

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House. Early C17 with later alterations. Timber-framed and rendered; horizontal boarding to north gable wall; corrugated asbestos roof. A chimney-stack at the south end has a plain red brick shaft. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; possibly part of a longer range. 2 window range: 12-pane sashes in flush cased frames, one boarded. 2 boarded windows to the ground storey. 2 flat-headed dormers have old 2-light single bar casement windows. 2 entrance doors, one to part of the ground storey only. INTERIOR: some main components of the timber frame are exposed inside. The bay at the south end has a chamfered ceiling beam on the ground storey and very long jowls to the main posts in the room above. The remaining 2 bays have a lower ceiling level to the ground storey: any visible ceiling beams are boxed, but wallplates and main posts are exposed. An upper fireplace has a bolection-moulded surround. The attics are plastered. Adjoining the south-west corner of the house is one wall of a former timber-framed building: in 2 narrow bays with close studding and a middle rail above a high brick plinth. It is not clear whether this framing formed part of No.96B Risbygate Street.

Listing NGR: TL8503464499