1, WESTGATE STREET
1, WESTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141925
- Date first listed:
- 01-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 1, WESTGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1, WESTGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141925
- Date first listed:
- 01-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 1, WESTGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, WESTGATE 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:
- 1, WESTGATE 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 85654 63751
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NE WESTGATE STREET 639-1/11/662 (South side) 01/10/85 No.1
GV II
House, now offices. Dated 1884. Constructed as a model house by Lot Jackaman, who built the Bury St Edmunds' Corn Exchange, Cornhill (qv). In random knapped flint and sandstone with long-and-short quoins which incorporate medallions. Slate roof with fretted ridge-tiles. High Victorian Gothic. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. 3 window range: most windows have stilted stone hood-moulds with foliated and carved head-stops. Cross windows to the 1st storey with mullions and transoms, stop-chamfered stone arrises and moulded stone sills. The eastern ground storey window is set in a square stone bay with moulded chamfered stone corner columns and rounded moulded parapet. The remaining 2 ground storey windows are irregular in proportion with mullions and transoms. 7-panelled door within a mullioned and transomed screen with glazing bars. The doorway has a hood-mould, splayed jambs and a datestone in a shield above. A simple cornice in Doric style. The east gable, designed to advertise, exhibits a gable finial, decorated window surround, ornate keystone, name stone "Jackaman; Builder, stone and marble mason", balusters, consoles, terracotta ventilators, Ionic capitals, cherub mask and varying stone surface treatments and textures. The west gable has fluted bargeboards, imitation half-timbering and herringbone red brick infill. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TL8565463751
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467646
- 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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