Number 16 and Attached Wall
NUMBER 16 AND ATTACHED WALL, 16, WESTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142302
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Number 16 and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 16 AND ATTACHED WALL, 16, WESTGATE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142302
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Number 16 and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 16 AND ATTACHED WALL, 16, 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:
- NUMBER 16 AND ATTACHED WALL, 16, 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 85418 63772
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW WESTGATE STREET 639-1/15/668 (South side) 07/08/52 No.16 and attached wall
GV II
House. C18, with earlier core to part. Timber-framed; fronted in C18 white brick with a slate roof and a wood modillion eaves cornice; a parallel lower rear range is rendered. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys: the 2nd storey is an addition and the rear is 2-storey. 4 window range to the ground and 1st storeys: all 12-pane sashes in flush cased frames. 2 6-pane sash windows to the 2nd storey. A 6-panel door has an unusual original knocker with an Egyptian head; doorcase with panelled reveals, shouldered architrave and dentilled pediment on moulded and enriched console brackets. 12-pane sash windows in flush cased frames to the upper storey of the back and a single storey lean-to with Edwardian small-paned French doors. A small wing at the east end has 16-pane sashes. Attached to the north-west corner of the front is a high stretch of garden wall linking with the side of No.17 (qv): in red brick on the inner face but in white brick with plain pilasters and a coping along the street frontage. INTERIOR: cellar on 2 levels: on the west, C19 vaulted brick, on the east, with a timber ceiling, joists renewed. The front range has a timber-framed core with main beams now boxed and panelled and moulded wood cornices. Internal window shutters with sunk panels. An added room on the west beyond a wide panelled segmental arch. Some main timbers are exposed on the 1st storey of the front range. The early C19 geometric stair rises 2 storeys: stick balusters, open bracketed strings, wreathed handrail. The rear wing has a chimney-stack on the east wall with Tudor and C17 bricks, probably re-used.
Listing NGR: TL8541863772
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467666
- 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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