12, WESTGATE STREET
12, WESTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142299
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 12, WESTGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 12, WESTGATE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142299
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 12, WESTGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, 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:
- 12, 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 85494 63771
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW WESTGATE STREET 639-1/15/666 (South side) 12/07/72 No.12
II
House. Later C17 with a C18 front. Timber-framed and rendered; plaintiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellars. 3 windows to the main part of the front: 6-pane to the 1st storey and 16-pane to the ground storey, all in flush cased frames; a narrow sash window to each storey on the far left. 3 gabled dormers with 4-pane 2-light casement windows have pierced ornamental ridge tiles, fluted bargeboards and hanging finials. A 6-panel door in deep panelled reveals with a moulded architrave. A tall red brick chimney-stack on the east side has 3 attached hexagonal shafts and rebuilt corbelled caps. The rectangular base is almost completely obscured by the ridge of the present roof. Lean-to extensions and a wing at the rear. INTERIOR: a large cellar with brick walling, some flint and reused stone blocks. No framing exposed: all main beams boxed in and fireplaces replaced. Thought to have been originally jettied. Panelled internal shutters to the windows. The entrance hall has a dado of Jacobean panelling uncovered during restoration in the 1970s. Early C19 stair with stick balusters and ramped handrail. Clasped purlins to the front range of the roof.
Listing NGR: TL8549463771
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467663
- 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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