St Marys House
ST MARYS HOUSE, 56, WHITING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096773
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Marys House
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARYS HOUSE, 56, WHITING STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096773
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Marys House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARYS HOUSE, 56, 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:
- ST MARYS HOUSE, 56, 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 85344 63818
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW WHITING STREET 639-1/15/713 (West side) 07/08/52 No.56 St Mary's House
II
House. Late C18/early C19. Timber-framed and rendered; slate roof with a moulded eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellars. 3 16-pane sash windows in flush cased frames to the 1st storey and 2 tripartite sash windows to the ground storey, the central window 12-pane, the 2 smaller side windows 8-pane. A central 6-panel entrance door, up 4 steps with cast-iron wreathed handrails, is recessed in a plain segmental-arched surround. The fanlight has radiating glazing-bars and is supported by plain columns. A C19 2-storey rear wing has been reduced in length. INTERIOR: the house was used by several wine and spirit merchants during the C19 and has very extensive cellars, flint-walled and brick vaulted. Part of the brick is Tudor, but most C19. On the ground storey, a very fine Adam style fireplace surround in the room to the right of the entry and a similar but simpler surround with fluted half-columns in the room above. At the rear of the entrance hall a good winder stair with bracketed open strings, stick balusters and wreathed handrail. Panelled reveals and internal shutters to the windows. Rate book entries relating to this site are said to go back to 1759 but the present house seems to be a rebuilding of c1790.
Listing NGR: TL8534463818
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467784
- 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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