Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW COLLEGE STREET
639-1/15/281 (West side)
12/07/72 No.50
The Old Beehive

GV II

Formerly known as: The Beehive Public House COLLEGE STREET.
House, formerly a public house and later a school. C16 core;
early C19 alterations and front. Timber-framed, fronted in
painted brick; rendered side wall; rear wall in kidney flint
with red brick dressings. Slate roof with a wide plain eaves
cornice.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 2 window range: 12-pane sashes
to the 1st storey, 6-pane to the 2nd, all in plain reveals
with projecting stone sills. One similar replacement sash to
the ground storey and a small single-storey flat- roofed bay
containing a 12-pane sash window in a flush cased frame with
one 4-pane canted side light. A 4-panel door with moulded
pilasters and cornice to the wood doorcase. In the brickwork
above the door and window is the blocked elliptical arch of a
former wide carriage entry, and there is a similar archway at
the rear of the building.
INTERIOR: a large main beam with wide chamfer, partly boxed
in, spans the whole ground storey and indicates an earlier
core and the rearrangement of the interior, probably during
conversion into a public house. The cellar has C19 brickwork
mixed with older flint rubble and render. A C19 winder stair
with ramped handrail and stick balusters. In the attic, the
slope of a lower earlier roof is visible in the gable wall.
At the rear is a narrow timber-framed and rendered 2-bay range
with a pantiled roof, jettied, set at right angles and
formerly free-standing, but now linked to the front. Probably
C16, but difficult to date as all features are covered. At the
back of the yard, a further early C19 outbuilding, formerly
2-storey but now single-storey, rendered, with a central door
and two 12-pane sash windows in flush cased frames. This was
used as a games room for the public house. A sale notice of
1858 advertises the property as 'The Beehive Beer House'. This
is the probable date when The Beehive was transferred to No.21
College Street (qv).

Listing NGR: TL8543463926

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26342923

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House