53 AND 54, WESTGATE STREET
53 AND 54, WESTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142324
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 53 AND 54, WESTGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 53 AND 54, WESTGATE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142324
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 53 AND 54, WESTGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53 AND 54, 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:
- 53 AND 54, 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 85382 63790
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW WESTGATE STREET 639-1/15/677 (North side) 12/07/72 Nos.53 AND 54
GV II
A pair of cottages. C18, extended in the early C19. Timber-framed; red brick to lower wall of east gable; roughcast rendered; plaintiled roof; gable and chimney-stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; gable end chimney-stacks. 2 window range: small-paned 2-light casements to the 1st storey and sashes to the ground storey, No.53 12-pane, No.54 with plain glass, both in flush cased frames. 2 gabled dormers with 2-light single bar casement windows. 2 central entrance doors, boarded. The 2-storey rear extension has a lean-to roof which runs into the slope of the main roof. INTERIOR: no cellars. The 2 cottages have a matching layout, initially with a single living-room in the front and a walk-in larder and corner stair behind. The C19 extension enlarged the larder area into a room and the original rear wall was removed. The infill between the studding of the partition wall has now been removed in each cottage to make one larger room. The red brick chimney-stacks each have reinstated open hearths with timber lintels, in No.54 with a marked camber. Many re-used timbers in both cottages and very light framing. Newel stair beside each stack. On the west, No.53 is butted up against the adjoining house and has a section of plastered external wall with comb-pargeting backing on the stair. All roof timbers covered: the original roof of No.54 was destroyed by fire in 1982.
Listing NGR: TL8538263790
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467688
- 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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