23, WESTGATE STREET
23, WESTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142311
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 23, WESTGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 23, WESTGATE STREET
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- Date:
- 2003-07-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/09722/11
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142311
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 23, WESTGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23, 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:
- 23, 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 85312 63762
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW WESTGATE STREET 639-1/15/672 (South side) 12/07/72 No.23
GV II
House. C16 and C17, altered in the early C19. Timber-framed; fronted in white brick; plaintiled roof. A large plain end chimney-stack on the west. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and cellar, with a 2-storey rear wing. 2 window range: 12-pane sashes in flush cased frames with segmental arches to frames and surrounds. A 6-panel door with a shallow fanlight has a doorcase with pilasters and a flat cornice hood on moulded brackets. A recessed foot-scraper in the wall by the entrance door. INTERIOR: small brick-lined cellar. The front ground storey room has square Jacobean panelling, discovered during restoration in the 1970s, which covers one wall and forms a dado to another. Fireplace with a reeded surround. Moulded plaster cornice. Early C19 stair with stick balusters and ramped and moulded handrail. On the upper storey the back wall has good C16 studding with a shallow cranked tension brace pegged to the studs and a middle rail with assembly marks. The C17 timber-framed rear wing is butted up against this wall: it has some original studding and a rebuilt end wall in C20 brick. It was probably originally open to the roof and the ceiling joists may be a C20 insertion. All the roof timbers are concealed. On the south side the house overlaps with a small timber-framed wing forming part of No.24 (qv).
Listing NGR: TL8531263762
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467675
- 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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