51 and 52 College Street and 7 College Lane, Bury St Edmunds

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TL8563NW
639-1/15/282

BURY ST EDMUNDS
COLLEGE STREET (west side)
Nos.51 and 52

12/07/72

GV
II
Includes: No.7 COLLEGE LANE.

House, now divided into three. Mid C16 with C17 extensions to part and early C19 remodelling and front. Timber-framed; originally jettied on two sides with a corner-post at the north-east corner; encased in early C19 white brick; graduated stone slates.

EXTERIOR: two storeys, cellars and attics; on a corner site; the third unit is No.7 College Lane. Basic three-cell plan with a gable-end stack on the north. Four window range to College Street: nine-pane sashes to the first storey, twelve-pane to the ground storey, all in flush moulded cased frames with flat cement arches. Four flat-headed lead-covered dormers have rendered cheeks and two-light single bar casement windows. Door with six raised fielded panels to No.51, half-glazed to No.52, both in plain reveals with flat cement arches. The entry to the third unit is in the north gable end, fronting on College Lane: rendered; plain bargeboards to gable. A single-light window to the upper storey with a heavy flush frame and two horizontal glazing-bars. A twelve-pane sash in a cased and moulded flush frame to the ground storey and a half-glazed door with a plain wooden surround and rectangular fanlight.

INTERIOR: No.51 contains the former service rooms and part of the lower bay of the hall of the original house with dividing partitions removed. Plain chamfered main beams and unchamfered flat joists exposed in the ground-storey room. A later studded partition, inserted in the early C19 to make an entrance corridor, re-uses older timbers and has had its infill removed. The original rear wall was removed when an extension was added in the C17, forming a jettied and gabled rear wing. At the same time the roof was raised to give an attic storey. The cellar below is lined with flint and brick, covered with old render, and has supporting ceiling-beams. No.52 (access not possible) contains the remaining one-and-a-half bays of the former ground-storey hall. No.7 College Lane contains the former two-bay parlour end of the house. The cellar, converted to a room, has walls of old brick with a quantity of stone blocks. On the ground storey the main beam, with a double ogee and roll moulding and run-off stops, rests on a main post in the rear wall with shallow multiple roll-mouldings at its head. A trimmer and dragon-beam have double ogee-mouldings. On the upper storey a small fireplace with a chamfered and cambered lintel and some exposed studding. A further C16 range along College Lane, which has heavy close studding and a blocked three-light original window with damaged diamond mullions, has been raised. The remainder of this range now forms part of Nos 7A and 8 College Lane (qv) which adjoin on the west. Roof inaccessible.

Listing NGR: TL8543463935

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