15, CORNHILL
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1076955
Date first listed: 30-Oct-1997
Statutory Address: 15, CORNHILL
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Location
Statutory Address: 15, CORNHILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Suffolk
District: St. Edmundsbury (District Authority)
Parish: Bury St. Edmunds
National Grid Reference: TL 85216 64316
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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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.
End of official listing