Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE ST MARY'S SQUARE
639-1/11/623 (North side)
Detached outbuilding in garden of
No.4

GV II

An outbuilding formerly used as a bakehouse and wash-house.
Dated 1873 across the south gable. In flint and red brick,
rendered along the west side; plaintiled roof. In an ornate
pseudo-vernacular style.
EXTERIOR: single storey. The south gable end has a small
pentice-roofed lean-to above the lower part of the wall and
kidney flints to the upper part; the apex is filled with
random brick and the whole upper part has applied mock
timbering. A lozenge-shaped window has a carved stone
hood-mould. Fluted barge-boards and spike finials to the
gables. Roof with 2 small triangular louvres in the west slope
and pierced ridge-tiles.
A large boarded wooden louvre on the ridge has a high conical
lead-covered roof. An internal chimney-stack with a plain red
brick shaft is topped by a terracotta chimney-pot unusually
decorated with leaf and floral motifs.
INTERIOR: divided into 2. The principal room, open to the
roof, was used as the wash-house/bakehouse and the smaller
area for storage.

Listing NGR: TL8575363851

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26428556

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)