18 AND 18A, HATTER STREET

18 AND 18A, HATTER STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1022531
Date first listed:
07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:
18 AND 18A, HATTER STREET
Statutory Address:
18 AND 18A, HATTER STREET

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1022531
Date first listed:
07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:
18 AND 18A, HATTER STREET
Statutory Address 1:
18 AND 18A, HATTER STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
18 AND 18A, HATTER 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 85397 64089

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW HATTER STREET 639-1/14/426 (West side) 07/08/52 Nos.18 AND 18A

GV II

House, now offices. C16 and C17 with early C18 alterations and extensions. Timber-framed; rendered in panels; plaintiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar. Roof with 3 gables facing the street; a wide arched entrance at the south end with exposed timbering along its side walls. 6 window range: 12-pane sashes to each storey in flush cased frames with thick early C18 ovolo-moulded glazing-bars. A central entrance door has a doorcase with a flat pediment supported by heavy scrolled brackets; plain reveals; door with 2 leaves and a fanlight with vertical glazing-bars. INTERIOR: rubble and stone to the cellar walls; ceiling supported by a heavy chamfered main beam and flat joists. Above ground, the oldest part of the building is the wide entrance at the south end and the room above it, which have heavy studding and are separately framed in 3 bays with possible indications of a medieval core. The remainder of the front range has extensive early C18 changes and has been extended at the rear, where there is a fine stair and balustrade with closed strings, barley-sugar twist balusters, plain newels and moulded handrail. Panelled dado. In both the front upper rooms corner fireplaces with bolection-moulded surrounds have been introduced. A narrower C17 rear range of 2 storeys and attics, has a plaintiled mansard roof and is faced with ornate Edwardian tile-hanging. 2 rooms to each storey: on the ground storey one room has full height panelling with raised mouldings and a heavy moulded wooden cornice. Bolection moulded fireplace surround with plain pilasters and heavy cornice projecting slightly above. The 1st storey room has a C17 main beam with scroll-stops. A C19 extension to the west of the rear range has a shallow-pitched roof and is also tile-hung.



Listing NGR: TL8539764089

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
466901
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

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

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