Masongill House
MASONGILL HOUSE, 69, WHITING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096717
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Masongill House
- Statutory Address:
- MASONGILL HOUSE, 69, WHITING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096717
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Masongill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MASONGILL HOUSE, 69, WHITING 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:
- MASONGILL HOUSE, 69, WHITING 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 85318 63996
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW WHITING STREET 639-1/15/723 (West side) 12/07/72 No.69 Masongill House
GV II
House. C15 and C16 with later fronting. Timber-framed and rendered with applied mock timbering. Plaintiled roof with a modillion eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar: 2 wings at rear. 2 windows to each storey: 16-pane sashes to the 1st storey, tripartite sashes with 12-pane central windows to the ground storey, all in flush cased frames. A 6-panel entrance door with the top 4 panels glazed has a moulded architrave and a shallow hood on shaped brackets. It is approached by steps with iron handrails, and surrounded by a C20 cast-iron openwork porch. INTERIOR: brick-lined cellar. Front range in 2 long bays. The room on the left of the entry has some exposed studding on the rear wall and a fireplace on the south side wall. A cast-iron C19 grate has a row of C17 blue Dutch tiles above. The room to the right has a main beam which has been adzed back and chamfered flat joists with step stops. A chimney-stack on the rear wall has an open fireplace with a plain timber lintel and old brickwork rebuilt. Part of the upper stack is in flint. The north rear wing is in 2 bays, originally forming a single room on each storey, but now with partitioning. The fireplace on the west side of the internal chimney-stack has a very large plain cambered lintel with supporting stone jambs in an altered position. On the upper storey, the north wall has exposed studding and very heavy tension bracing. The cambered tie-beam of the former open truss has a peg-hole for a crown-post, but the roof above is a complete C20 replacement. The base and part of the shaft of the crown-post remain in the house, the shaft octagonal with curved stops to the base. The south wing abuts on the rear wing of No.68 (qv). The roof over the front range was reconstructed in the C19; it incorporates a number of earlier rafters, including some with smoke blackening from the roof of an open hall, possibly from an earlier form of the present house.
Listing NGR: TL8531863996
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467822
- 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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