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Latitude: 52.2459 / 52°14'45"N
Longitude: 0.7116 / 0°42'41"E
OS Eastings: 585216
OS Northings: 264316
OS Grid: TL852643
Mapcode National: GBR QF0.0RZ
Mapcode Global: VHKD4.9T16
Plus Code: 9F426PW6+8J
Entry Name: 15, Cornhill
Listing Date: 30 October 1997
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1076955
English Heritage Legacy ID: 466755
ID on this website: 101076955
Location: Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk, IP33
County: Suffolk
District: West Suffolk
Civil Parish: Bury St Edmunds
Built-Up Area: Bury St Edmunds
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Bury St Edmunds St John the Evangelist
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: Building Jacobethan
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW CORNHILL
639-1/14/285 (West side)
No.15
GV II
Shop. 1910. By Michael Vyne Treleavan for Sir Joseph Boot.
Brick with ornate render; plaintiles. Exuberant Jacobethan
style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3 canted bays to the 1st storey with
mullion-and-transom windows, 4-light to the 2 outer windows,
6-light to the centre, all with diamond-leaded panes to the
top lights. The windows are flanked by 4 niches with
semicircular shell tops containing life-size figures of a
Roman warrior, St Edmund, Edward I and Edward VI, all in
appropriate costume, with cartouches above. On the 2nd storey,
bracketed shafts to the 2 outer canted mullioned bay windows
which have oriel bases decorated with leaf scrolls, swags and
masks. A central square 6-light bay window has a moulded
timber base decorated with leaf-motif, coved below with vine
trails and a winged cherub head. A raised timber band above
the 1st storey windows has leaf-scroll ornament.
Between the 2nd storey windows are plaster panels in low
relief with strapwork and caryatids. Wide eaves overhang below
3 gables projecting from the front slope of the roof. The
centre gable is larger, and all have panelled plasterwork in
their pediments, the 2 outer with strapwork and cartouches,
the central pediment with a seated medieval monarch surrounded
by 3 other figures. Ornate hanging finials to the gables.
Barge-boards with carved motifs. A late C20 shop front to the
ground storey.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 152).
Listing NGR: TL8521664316
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