Beech Hill House and Attached Flanking Walls and Steps
BEECH HILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED FLANKING WALLS AND STEPS, HOSPITAL ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09752/08
- Rights:
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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466932
- 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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