15, Guildhall Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW GUILDHALL STREET 639-1/14/367 (East side) 12/07/72 No.15 (Formerly Listed as: GUILDHALL STREET (East side) No.15) (Formerly Listed as: GUILDHALL STREET (East side) No.16)

GV II

House and shop, now entirely shop premises. Early to mid C19. White brick, painted, with a slate roof and plain eaves soffit, on a corner site. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3 window range to Churchgate Street and 1 window to Guildhall Street, all 12-pane sashes in plain reveals. 2 shop windows to Churchgate Street in early C19 style with pilasters and cornices and a door with 6 sunk panels and a fanlight with radiating glazing-bars in a semicircular brick surround. A similar shop window to the Guildhall Street front. The splayed corner has a blank window above and a wide entrance doorway, fanlight with radiating glazing bars and a segmental brick surround. The building now includes the former No.16. This has a mid-C19 brick front with a plain parapet to a possibly C17 timber-framed core; plaintiled roof and the remains of an end chimney-stack on the north. 2 storeys. 2 windows to the upper storey: sashes with a single vertical glazing-bar in plain reveals. A double shopfront, formerly with a central entrance now has the door replaced by a narrower window. A plain fascia has ornate blind boxes remaining. INTERIOR: no features prior to the early C19 in No.15. Former No.16 interior mainly gutted; roof renewed. The main beam on the ground storey is a C20 insertion. The gable wall on the south is the end wall of No.17 (qv), with substantial studding exposed. Part of a significant group in Guildhall Street and included for group value.

Listing NGR: TL8527564016