4, ST MARYS SQUARE
4, ST MARYS SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135163
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 4, ST MARYS SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 4, ST MARYS SQUARE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135163
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 4, ST MARYS SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4, 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:
- 4, 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 85756 63836
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NE ST MARY'S SQUARE 639-1/11/622 (North side) 07/08/52 No.4
GV II
House. C16, altered in the C18. Timber-framed and rendered, with the front roughcast in panels; tiled mansard roof with a moulded parapet and wood modillion cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellars and attics. 3 window range:12-pane sashes in flush cased frames. 2 hipped dormers with 12-pane sash windows in the lower slope of the roof. A 6-panel door with a rectangular fanlight with ornate glazing has a doorcase with panelled pilasters and a pedimented hood with a fret ornamented soffit supported by cut and moulded brackets. The range at the rear has a porch with a tented lead roof. INTERIOR: the house contains 2 C16 ranges parallel to the street, both of which were raised during the C18. A narrow cellar runs from front to back of the house, lined throughout with re-used ashlar blocks, some of sandstone. Below the junction of the 2 frames is a wide low pointed archway, and the rear part has heavy original ceiling joists. Few timbers are exposed inside the building. Main beams in both ranges have double roll-mouldings with run-off stops. The stair (resited) has a ramped handrail and C18 turned balusters and there are several other C18 fittings. An upper fireplace has an ornate cast-iron duck's nest grate with an eared surround. The rear upper room has a plaster cornice with 4-petalled flower ornament and a small cast-iron balcony. The top storey was added to the front range earlier than to the back and its rear wall has the remains of comb pargeting in panels, visible in the small gap between the 2 frames.
Listing NGR: TL8575663836
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467351
- 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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