59 Whiting Street / 58 And 59 Whiting Street

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW WHITING STREET 639-1/15/716 (West side) 07/08/52 No.59 (Formerly Listed as: WHITING STREET (West side) Nos.58 AND 59)

GV II

House. C16 and C17. Timber-framed, with exposed timbers on the 2 upper storeys of the front and a rendered gable. Plaintiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. The centre of the 1st storey projects forward in a square C17 bay, supported on ornate console brackets, and carried up to roof level in a large gabled dormer. Originally this had a high window across the front with 2 small side lights, but now has an Edwardian small-paned cross window. At attic level, the blocked original window has been replaced by a smaller 2-light small-paned casement. On the ground storey, one small-paned cross window and one small-paned single light window with transom. 6-panel door with the top 4 panels glazed. A large red brick chimney-stack is shared with No.58 (qv), adjoining on south. A small gabled rear wing. INTERIOR: front range in 2 bays with a double ogee and roll-moulding to the joists and a similar but more complex moulding to the main cross beams. One bay is interrupted by the chimney-stack, which appears inserted. The fireplace has stone jambs with re-used Norman nook shafts and a plain timber lintel. A plain clasped purlin roof in 2 bays. The rear wing has been raised.





Listing NGR: TL8533763859

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1658 IOE Records taken by John Rawlinson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr John Rawlinson. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project