15, CORNHILL
15, CORNHILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076955
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 15, CORNHILL
- Statutory Address:
- 15, CORNHILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076955
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 15, CORNHILL
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15, 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:
- 15, 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 85216 64316
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW CORNHILL 639-1/14/285 (West side) No.15
GV II
Shop. 1910. By Michael Vyne Treleavan for Sir Joseph Boot. Brick with ornate render; plaintiles. Exuberant Jacobethan style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3 canted bays to the 1st storey with mullion-and-transom windows, 4-light to the 2 outer windows, 6-light to the centre, all with diamond-leaded panes to the top lights. The windows are flanked by 4 niches with semicircular shell tops containing life-size figures of a Roman warrior, St Edmund, Edward I and Edward VI, all in appropriate costume, with cartouches above. On the 2nd storey, bracketed shafts to the 2 outer canted mullioned bay windows which have oriel bases decorated with leaf scrolls, swags and masks. A central square 6-light bay window has a moulded timber base decorated with leaf-motif, coved below with vine trails and a winged cherub head. A raised timber band above the 1st storey windows has leaf-scroll ornament. Between the 2nd storey windows are plaster panels in low relief with strapwork and caryatids. Wide eaves overhang below 3 gables projecting from the front slope of the roof. The centre gable is larger, and all have panelled plasterwork in their pediments, the 2 outer with strapwork and cartouches, the central pediment with a seated medieval monarch surrounded by 3 other figures. Ornate hanging finials to the gables. Barge-boards with carved motifs. A late C20 shop front to the ground storey. INTERIOR: not inspected. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 152).
Listing NGR: TL8521664316
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466755
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 152
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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