1, Angel Hill

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE ANGEL HILL 639-1/8/159 (West side) 07/08/52 No.1

GV II

House, now used as doctors' surgeries on the ground storey with living accommodation above; forms part of a complex group, part C20, extending southwards along Athenaeum Lane and westwards to Angel Lane. Reconstructed c1815/1816 on an older site. White brick. Slate roof with a plain eaves soffit. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5 window range to front, 12-pane sashes to the 1st storey, 6-pane to the 2nd storey and sashes with plate glass to the ground storey, all in cased frames with deep reveals and flat gauged arches over. A raised stucco band runs below the 1st storey windows. A recessed central doorway with a semicircular surround within a Doric portico with fluted pillars and a heavy entablature. A single-storey C20 range links the back of the building with the former stable block facing on to Angel Lane. The front of the stables facing the inner courtyard has a colour-washed wall of kidney flint and red brick, a plain semicircular-headed doorway and a wide segmental-arched opening infilled with a window. On the upper storey 3 12-pane sash windows in deep segmental-arched red brick reveals. C18 middle window with thick ovolo-moulded glazing bars. The Angel Lane side of the stable was extended with a white brick front which has a wide central semicircular arched opening flanked by 2 semicircular headed doorways with radiating glazing-bars to their fanlights. INTERIOR: the main house has a hallway paved with limestone flags and linking black dots. Plaster cornices with acanthus-leaf decoration and floral motifs to the ground storey rooms. Panelled doors and internal shutters. At the rear, a semicircular-headed archway with moulded surrounds and sunk panels to the reveals. The date of rebuilding is indicated by an entry in the town Rate Book.

Listing NGR: TL8550664143