BEECH HILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED FLANKING WALLS AND STEPS

BEECH HILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED FLANKING WALLS AND STEPS, HOSPITAL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1022562
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:: BEECH HILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED FLANKING WALLS AND STEPS
Statutory Address:: BEECH HILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED FLANKING WALLS AND STEPS, HOSPITAL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1022562
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: BEECH HILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED FLANKING WALLS AND STEPS
Statutory Address 1:: BEECH HILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED FLANKING WALLS AND STEPS, HOSPITAL ROAD

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:: BEECH HILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED FLANKING WALLS AND STEPS, HOSPITAL ROAD

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 84517 63774

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE HOSPITAL ROAD 639-1/9/457 (North side) 12/07/72 Beech Hill House and attached flanking walls and steps (Formerly Listed as: HOSPITAL ROAD (North side) Beech Hill House (West Suffolk General Hospital))

II

House and attached flanking walls and steps. c1850, with mid C20 alterations. Yellow brick with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs with 2 truncated ridge stacks. Plinth, angle pilasters, wooden eaves. Square plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Windows are mainly plain sashes. Slightly projecting centre bay with 4 stone steps flanked by urns, and Ionic portico and entablature, covering panelled door and overlight. Above, a glazed door, mid C20, in C19 eared architrave. Mid C20 balcony railing. On each side, a canted bay window, 2 storeys, 3 lights. Left return has 2 canted bay windows, 2 storeys, 3 lights. Curved flanking walls approx. 5m long, with slab coping. Central gateway in each wall with panelled square piers; similar, larger end piers. INTERIOR: wooden stair with double turned balusters and scrolled handrail. Ground floor front room, to right, has 2 elliptical arched cupboards wet in recesses, with glazed doors.

Listing NGR: TL8451763774

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Legacy System number:: 466932
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.