Turret House
TURRET HOUSE, 24, WESTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1142315
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Turret House
- Statutory Address:
- TURRET HOUSE, 24, WESTGATE STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09722/12
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1142315
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Turret House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TURRET HOUSE, 24, 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:
- TURRET HOUSE, 24, 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 85297 63760
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW WESTGATE STREET 639-1/15/673 (South side) 07/08/52 No.24 Turret House
GV II*
House; now St Nicholas Hospice. Late C17 and C18. Stuccoed brick front with rusticated quoins; white brick to rear with red brick dressings; slate to front slope of roof, plaintiles to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and cellar. 7 window range: all sashes, slightly irregularly spaced, without glazing bars, in moulded and shouldered architraves with raised flat arches and keystones. 6-panel entrance door with a Doric doorcase, fluted pilasters, triglyph frieze and pediment. The rear is in white brick with red brick dressings and has a heavy wood modillion cornice. A hipped wing projects on each side of the centre: on the west with two 12-pane sashes in flush cased frames to the ground and 1st storeys. A 2-light segmental-headed dormer; on the east a similar window arrangement has been changed on the ground storey by the addition of a flat-roofed early C19 extension with a tripartite sash window, 12-pane to the centre light, 8-pane to the sides. The centre has 3 similar sashes at different levels, one to light the stair. At the north side, a small section of a lower timber framed building is merged with the main range and may be a fragment of the original house on the site. INTERIOR: extensive cellars, mainly brick lined, but with a section of stone blocks along the front wall. A main beam with large chamfer and one old 2-light window with square leaded panes and pintle hinges. Some original sash windows on the ground storey of the rear wings have heavy ovolo-moulded glazing bars; the floors have the remains of York paving stones. 6-panel doors throughout. The ground storey room to the left of the entry has bolection-moulded panelling and door surrounds, beams with panelled boxing and a moulded cornice with dentils. One door has a panelled segmental-arched surround with keystone. To the right of the entry the room is fully panelled with raised fielded panelling; moulded dado rail; fireplace surround with eared architrave. A fine stair has moulded and ramped handrails, open bracketed strings and paired turned balusters. A flight in similar style leads from the 1st storey to the attic: some turned balusters
have been replaced by plain square ones. An upper room at the east end has mock Jacobean panelling throughout.
Listing NGR: TL8529763760
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467679
- 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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