ANCIENT HOUSE OAK HOUSE

ANCIENT HOUSE, 33A, EASTGATE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1343595
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: ANCIENT HOUSE OAK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ANCIENT HOUSE, 33A, EASTGATE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1343595
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: ANCIENT HOUSE OAK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ANCIENT HOUSE, 33A, EASTGATE STREET
Statutory Address 2:: OAK HOUSE, 33B, EASTGATE STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ANCIENT HOUSE, 33A, EASTGATE STREET
Statutory Address:: OAK HOUSE, 33B, EASTGATE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Bury St. Edmunds
National Grid Reference:: TL 85986 64569

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564NE EASTGATE STREET 639-1/4/340 (North side) 07/08/52 Nos.33A AND 33B Ancient House (No.33A) and Oak House (No.33B) (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET (North side) Nos.33, 33A, AND 33B Ancient House (No.33A) and Oak House (No.33B))

GV II*

House, now divided into 2. C15, refronted in the C18. Timber-framed, with some timbering exposed, but mainly rendered; plaintiles. On a corner site. Half-H form with a central range and 2 gabled and jettied cross-wings: on the east the wing is jettied on 2 sides with a moulded bressumer supported by 5 brackets with moulded capitals and shafts along the side and a corner-post bearing the damaged figure of an angel. At the north-east end is a small section with close studding exposed on the upper storey. Each of the gables has pierced and fluted C19 bargeboards with spike finials. The centre wall has been built up on the upper storey above the level of the original wallplate. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; 12-pane sash windows are spaced irregularly across the front, 3 to the upper storey on the Eastgate Street front and 5 to the ground storey; 3 along the upper storey on Barn Lane, all in flush cased frames. The Ancient House has a 4-panel door in a moulded architrave and a flat cornice hood on shaped brackets. Oak House has a panelled door on the Barn Lane frontage flanked by 2 narrow windows. INTERIOR: not inspected. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 152).

Listing NGR: TL8598664569

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Legacy System number:: 466811
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 152

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.