9, 9A AND 9B, THE TRAVERSE
9, 9A AND 9B, THE TRAVERSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1038273
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 9, 9A AND 9B, THE TRAVERSE
- Statutory Address:
- 9, 9A AND 9B, THE TRAVERSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1038273
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 9, 9A AND 9B, THE TRAVERSE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 9, 9A AND 9B, THE TRAVERSE
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:
- 9, 9A AND 9B, THE TRAVERSE
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 85286 64248
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW THE TRAVERSE 639-1/14/637 Nos.9, 9A AND 9B 12/07/72
GV II
House, now divided into 3 shops on the ground floor and flats above. Early C19. Fronted in white brick with a panelled parapet and a moulded stone cornice. Slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 5 window range, all sashes with a single vertical glazing-bar to lights in plain reveals with stuccoed lintels and stone sills. Above the 1st storey windows segmental arches in the brickwork are infilled with diaper brick. There are the remains of old signs painted on the upper part of the walls. The 3 shops have C20 fronts, No.9B in Regency style. The 3-storey Skinner Street frontage is partly rendered, with an irregular arrangement of small-paned sash windows in flush cased frames; one sliding sash window on the top storey. The rear of No.9B, which is now linked with No.10 The Traverse (qv), is faced in C18 red brick: a blocked window to both upper storeys and a sash window to each storey, 6-pane to the top storey, 16-pane to the 1st and ground storeys, all in flush cased frames. The ground and 1st storey windows have flat gauged arches; external shutters to the ground storey window and a door with flush panels. INTERIOR: cellar below No.9B has old render over rubble walling on which large simulated stone blocks have been outlined. A stone pillar supporting a ceiling beam has a Norman nook shaft and another similar shaft is embedded in the walling. No features exposed within any of the shops, but some exposed timbering in the top storey of the Skinner Street range.
Listing NGR: TL8528664248
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467588
- 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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