Batt House
BATT HOUSE, 56, WESTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142325
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Batt House
- Statutory Address:
- BATT HOUSE, 56, WESTGATE STREET
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- Date:
- 2003-07-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/10414/13
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142325
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Batt House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BATT HOUSE, 56, 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:
- BATT HOUSE, 56, 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 85391 63789
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW WESTGATE STREET 639-1/15/678 (North side) 12/07/72 No.56 Batt House (Formerly Listed as: WESTGATE STREET (North side) No.56 Bernard Batt House)
GV II
House; now used as the YMCA and divided into 14 bedsits. Early and later C19 with a fragmentary earlier core. White brick front, red brick sides and rear; slate roof with a moulded wood cornice. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; 2 parallel ranges, both C19 but of different date, to the main building; an extension in matching style on the east side and a small rendered single-storey section on the west with a tiled and hipped roof. 3 window range to the main front, all sashes in plain reveals with flat gauged arches, 16-pane to the ground and 1st storeys and 8-pane to the 2nd storey. The east extension has a single narrow sash window to each storey. The 6-panel door, with the top 2 panels glazed, is within the west extension: wood doorcase with pilasters and a dentil cornice. INTERIOR: extensive cellars, the rear with flint and stone walling and a brick vaulted ceiling. Only 2 main beams of the timber frame exposed. An early C19 winder stair which rises to the top storey has stick balusters and a wreathed handrail.
Listing NGR: TL8539163789
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467689
- 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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