11, High Baxter Street, Bury St. Edmunds, West Suffolk, Suffolk, IP33 (Grade II)

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW HIGH BAXTER STREET 639-1/14/435 (East side) 12/03/96 No.11

House. C17 core with C18 and C19 exterior. Timber-framed, part roughcast, part brick faced. Square roughcast panels to the upper storey of the front; painted brick to the lower storey. Plaintiled roof with a moulded timber eaves cornice. Probably originally jettied on the front and along the south gable: a bulge along the gable wall lines up with the top of the brickwork, which may underbuild a jetty along the front. Now in an isolated position as the sole survivor of a former continuous row of buildings along the east side of High Baxter Street. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics: 2 window range: sashes with a single vertical glazing bar in flush cased frames. 2 gabled dormers in the front slope of the roof with plain bargeboards and spike finials have small-paned 2-light casement windows. 2 dormers also in the rear slope. An off centre entrance door in a plain wood doorcase with flat cornice hood. The chimney-stack at the north end has a shaft of Tudor bricks. INTERIOR: plain main cross-beams exposed on the ground floor and in one upper room the wallplates and main beams. The timbers are plain with chamfers. The roof was renewed in the C18, when an extension along the rear widened the building.