3 AND 4, CROWN STREET
3 AND 4, CROWN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076933
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 4, CROWN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 3 AND 4, CROWN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076933
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 4, CROWN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3 AND 4, CROWN STREET
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:
- 3 AND 4, CROWN STREET
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 85572 64050
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SE CROWN STREET 639-1/8/297 (East side) 12/07/72 Nos.3 AND 4
GV II
A pair of houses. Early C19 fronts, C16 core. Timber-framed; white brick fronts; slate roofs with a plain eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars. 4 window range: 12-pane sashes in deep reveals to the 1st storey, 6-pane to the 2nd storey. A raised stucco band below the 1st-storey windows. No.3 has 2 tripartite sash windows on the ground storey with heavy woodwork, moulded cornices, and a blank semicircular-headed arch between. No.4 has two 12-pane sash windows like those on the 1st storey and a blank semicircular arch at the south end. All the windows have flat gauged arches. 2 semicircular-headed doorways have 6-panelled doors with the top 2 panels glazed and blank fanlights above. INTERIOR: No.3 has a long 3-bay range at right-angles to the street extending into a rear gable: studding exposed along the upper part of the north wall and along part of the south wall. To the south of this the frame is linked to that of No.4 and on the rear of the upper storey the slope of the roof was pushed out into a gable in the C17, with an attic storey above. Within the raised section is the upper part of a Jacobean dog-leg stair with moulded balusters and handrail, closed strings and square chamfered newels with solid acorn finials. No.4 has a narrow cellar below part of the front with walls of stone blocks, brick and flint, old render and some C19 brick. The timber ceiling has some original flat joists. On the ground storey is a single large 2-bay room facing the street with exposed studding and heavy flat unchamfered joists. The studding in the rear wall is renewed. In the partition wall with No.3 is a blocked original doorway. A fine fireplace on the rear wall has a stone surround with a moulded depressed Tudor arch, stone side walls within and stone blocks intermixed with red brick above. The upper room also has heavy exposed studding and the blocked remains of an original window. A further gable at the rear.
Listing NGR: TL8557264050
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466769
- 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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