Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8664NW EASTGATE STREET
639-1/5/343 (North side)
12/07/72 No.57
Unicorn House
(Formerly Listed as:
EASTGATE STREET
(North side)
No.61)

GV II

Former public house, now a house. Late C15/early C16; late C20
modernised exterior and rear extensions. Timber-framed and
rendered; pantiles.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar, partly above ground; now a
3-cell plan with internal chimney-stack. 3 window range:
small-paned C20 casements to the upper storey, the 2 outer
windows 2-light, the central window 3-light with a narrow
middle light. On the ground storey one 2-light casement window
with top lights and 2 fixed small-pane windows with
top-opening lights. A window within the high plinth at
pavement level lights the cellar. On the west gable a square
C20 bay with a gabled pantiled roof and 3 small-paned windows.
Entry now at the rear.
INTERIOR: extensive cellar, with walling of large kidney
flints, now modernised and part of the living area. Timbers
exposed in parts of interior. The frame is in 4 bays with a
3-cell plan, the remains of a cross-entry and an internal
chimney-stack with 2 back-to-back hearths. The hall is in one
long bay and there is no bay for the chimney which appears
inserted. One open fireplace has a large cambered and roll-
moulded lintel.
The house has undergone considerable changes: signs of
charring and smoke-blackening on the upper timbers suggest a
former open hall, but the clasped purlin roof is unblackened.
Tension braces in one cross-wall; one tie-beam and post have
empty mortices for arched braces. The 2 eastern bays have C17
ceiling joists. Curious drawings in red ochre on the plaster
within the roof space may be of windmills.

Listing NGR: TL8618064667

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26627383

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Recommended Books

• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5