Number 42 (West Half)
NUMBER 42 (WEST HALF), 42, CORNHILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076925
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Number 42 (West Half)
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 42 (WEST HALF), 42, CORNHILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076925
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Number 42 (West Half)
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 42 (WEST HALF), 42, CORNHILL
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:
- NUMBER 42 (WEST HALF), 42, CORNHILL
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 85299 64388
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW CORNHILL 639-1/7/289 (North side) 18/12/89 No.42 (West half)
GV II
Former lodging range to inn, now largely disused. Early C16, reroofed in the late C19. Timber-framed and rendered; a slightly recessed wall of C16 brick fronting Brentgovel Street; gabled slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2 window range to the formerly jettied Brentgovel Street frontage. The ground storey has C20 plank double doors to a wide entry on the left. The 1st storey has 2 C19 12-pane sash windows flanking a central late- C19 loading doorway, with half-glazed double doors and cast-iron swinging crane, mounted on a heavy timber wall-post. INTERIOR: exposed timber frame in 3 bays with middle rails, studding, jowled wall posts and chamfered wallplates; late C19 roof structure. 2 bays of the ground-storey ceiling are visible; heavy chamfered cross-beams and substantial plain joists with barefaced soffit tenons. The 1st storey has evidence for a diamond-mullioned window with rebates for shutters to the north (front) wall, and roll-moulded tie-beams, one of which has arched braces; the roll-moulded binding beams and joists have been remoulded. An original passage along the south (rear) wall, with a braced post defining the north side, was probably built as a gallery overlooking the rear yard of Moyses Hall (qv). The easternmost ground-storey bay is at present within No.42 (east half) (qv), where none of the structure is visible. This building is of considerable significance in the history of Moyses Hall, as it implies that at least part of the complex was in use as an inn c1500.
Listing NGR: TL8529964388
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466759
- 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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