The Fort
THE FORT, 13, SICKLESMERE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135178
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Fort
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORT, 13, SICKLESMERE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135178
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Fort
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FORT, 13, SICKLESMERE ROAD
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:
- THE FORT, 13, SICKLESMERE ROAD
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 86374 63088
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8663SW SICKLESMERE ROAD 639-1/12/544 (East side) 12/07/72 No.13 The Fort
II
House, formerly for the governor of the gaol, now divided into flats. 1803; by George Byfield for the then governor, John Orridge. Red brick with a moulded brick dentil cornice; now with a C20 penthouse roof. Originally at the centre of radiating wings containing the prison cells. Square, with wide splayed corners. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 3 window range to each front, small-paned sashes, mostly C20 replacements; many blocked. A single window to each storey of the splayed corners, those to the ground storey tripartite. All the ground storey windows are set into shallow segmental-arched recesses with a stucco band at impost level. The entrance door, which is late C20, fully glazed, with 2 leaves is approached by a flight of stone steps flanked by low walls. A mid-C20 flat-roofed and rendered 2-storey extension on the west. INTERIOR: not inspected. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 154).
Listing NGR: TL8633463062
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467366
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 154
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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