48, 49 AND 49A, CHURCHGATE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1248214
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:: 48, 49 AND 49A, CHURCHGATE STREET
Statutory Address:: 48, 49 AND 49A, CHURCHGATE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1248214
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: 48, 49 AND 49A, CHURCHGATE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 48, 49 AND 49A, CHURCHGATE STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 48, 49 AND 49A, CHURCHGATE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Bury St. Edmunds
National Grid Reference:: TL 85430 64041

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW CHURCHGATE STREET 639-1/14/255 (South side) 12/07/72 Nos.48, 49 AND 49A (Formerly Listed as: CHURCHGATE STREET (South side) Nos.47, 48, 49 AND 49A) (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE STREET No.1)

GV II*

Includes: No.1 COLLEGE STREET. House, later divided into 3, with a corner shop. Core of c1300; early C16 alterations; late C18/early C19 modifications and extensions. Timber-framed and roughcast-rendered; plaintiled roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and cellar; on a corner site with a return front to No.1 College Street. 3 window range to Churchgate Street and 2 window range to College Street: all 16-pane sashes in flush cased frames. No.49A, the corner shop, is on the ground storey only. The C19 shop front has a window with glazing bars to each street and a half-glazed corner door, panelled stall boards and a continuous moulded cornice and fascia. A lead-covered segmental-headed dormer on the College Street frontage has a 12-pane sash window. The 3 house doors have doorcases with plain wood pilasters and flat cornice hoods. INTERIOR: cellar overlapping with No.2 College Street (qv) contains re-used stone blocks. The rear part of No.48 contains 2 bays of a former aisled open hall of c1300: in the party wall with No.49 is part of one end truss with passing braces; the rear wall of the hall originally stood further to the south. A chimney-stack with a single hearth, inserted in the early C16 several feet in front of the truss, has a back wall of large limestone blocks, and is faced on the front and around the hearth with Tudor brick. The jambs of the fireplace are of chamfered stone blocks; a C20 replacement lintel. A section of herringbone brickwork at the back of the hearth is not central to the present fireplace, and suggests that the hearth had an earlier form. A large inserted main ceiling beam, reused from another site and with evidence of charring, is carved on the sides and soffit with a variant of folded leaf motif in which the leaves encircle a straight stem. The beam is brattished on the side facing the stack with housings

at one end for moulded joists. A short trimmer and a section of plain unchamfered joists link it with the brickwork of the stack. On the upper storey, substantial studding and a blocked window opening in the original front wall have been exposed: this stood back from the street; the house was extended forwards during remodelling in the early C19, when the roof was replaced at a shallow pitch. The upper front wall also has the remains of early C17 painted decoration in a black-and-white design of formalised flowers set in surrounds. No.49, with No.1 College Street, originally formed a storied and jettied cross-wing to the aisled hall in No.48. The south gable wall, adjoining No.2 College Street (qv), has the remains of an end truss with passing braces which are halved against the collar and across double tie-beams. The wallplates along the east and west walls are clasped between these tie-beams and along the west side they overhang, indicating an original long jetty. The ceiling-beams on the ground storey include a dragon-beam, showing that the Churchgate Street front was also jettied with a corner-post. The C13 remains are incomplete, but sufficient to indicate that this is the earliest timber-framed building found in the town, while the evidence of clasping tie-beams is so far unique in Suffolk.

Listing NGR: TL8543064041

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.