2, ST MARYS SQUARE
2, ST MARYS SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135155
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 2, ST MARYS SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 2, ST MARYS SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135155
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 2, ST MARYS SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, ST MARYS SQUARE
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:
- 2, ST MARYS SQUARE
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 85742 63824
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NE ST MARY'S SQUARE 639-1/11/620 (North side) 07/08/52 No.2
GV II
House. C18, with C15 and C17 core. Red brick facing over a timber frame; rendered rear, partly jettied. Tiled roof with a wood modillion eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellar and attics. 3 window range: 3-light small-paned casements in plain reveals with finely gauged brick arches. 3 flat-headed dormers with 2-light single bar casement windows. A central 4-panel entrance door with horizontal upper and lower panels has a shallow rectangular fanlight and a narrow panelled architrave with a flat hood on console brackets. INTERIOR: cellar with walling of flint and reused stone blocks; one very worn reset corbel head. The interior is complex and much altered with many features concealed and confusion because false timbering has been introduced. In the room to the right of the entrance hall there is evidence for an underbuilt jetty supported on 2 cast-iron columns. The reconstructed fireplace on the back wall has a moulded beam inserted as a lintel. Exposed timbering in the entrance hall is mainly a later introduction, but the studded wall on the left appears to be part of the original frame. A half bay at the west end of the house is a fragment of No.1 St Mary's Square, demolished for road-widening. This has a section of very heavy ceiling joists for a jetty; the remaining framing in the room is hidden. On the 1st storey the 2 bays on the west have good exposed studding: in the end room, a shutter slide and the remains of a sill for a mullioned window. The fireplace surround has a C18 eared architrave. Roof with side purlins, mainly concealed. The rear range, running parallel to the front, has been partly reconstructed but seems in any case to be a rebuilding of a late medieval hall range linked with the rear cross-wing of No.3 St Mary's Square (qv). The ground storey ceiling is in 3 bays with the joists set on edge and aligned the wrong way in relation to the jetty. The open fireplace is in Tudor brick with chamfered jambs and a timber lintel. On the 1st storey, widely-spaced studding and an open fireplace with a shallow brick arch.
Listing NGR: TL8574263824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467343
- 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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