5, HONEY HILL
5, HONEY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022547
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 5, HONEY HILL
- Statutory Address:
- 5, HONEY HILL
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14126/29
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022547
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 5, HONEY HILL
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, HONEY HILL
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 5, HONEY HILL
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 85745 63936
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NE HONEY HILL 639-1/11/443 (South side) 12/07/72 No.5 (Formerly Listed as: HONEY HILL (South side) The Old Court House (adjoining Coach and Horses PH on the West))
GV II
House; now used as Museum Office. c1590 with alterations of the mid C18, c1900 and 1990. Timber-framed and plastered, the front pargeted with large raised mid-C18 panels. Plaintiled roof. One internal and one rear chimney-stack of C18 and C20 red brick. 2-cell plan with a modified cross-wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics: 3 window range: mid-C18 casements with transoms and leaded lights, mainly renewed c1900 with wooden label moulds. Entrance doorway of c1900 in a single-storey extension to the right; boarded and battened door with fanlight. INTERIOR: hall to the left with altered mid-C16 open fireplace and moulded mid-C16 1st storey beams and joists, adapted and re-used c1590. Fragmentary wall painting of floral designs over fireplace. Parlour to the right with plain and massive joists. A late C17 wall-painting fragment of a tromp-l'oeil arcaded window. The hall chamber has fragmentary but more important wall-painting of c1590 with alternate vertical panels in red and grey with a foliate frieze of black and white on grey; on the east wall are 2 damaged black letter Scriptural inscriptions in red borders taken from Barker's version of the Bible of 1581. The parlour chamber has similar wall-paintings in which the panels have an additional frieze of diamonds within a red border.
Listing NGR: TL8574563936
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466917
- 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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