3A AND 3B, THE TRAVERSE

3A AND 3B, THE TRAVERSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1145956
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:
3A AND 3B, THE TRAVERSE
Statutory Address:
3A AND 3B, THE TRAVERSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1145956
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:
3A AND 3B, THE TRAVERSE
Statutory Address 1:
3A AND 3B, THE TRAVERSE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
3A AND 3B, THE TRAVERSE

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 85276 64309

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW THE TRAVERSE 639-1/14/632 Nos.3A AND 3B 12/07/72 (Formerly Listed as: THE TRAVERSE (East side) No.3)

GV II

House, now divided into 2 shops on the ground storey with storage above. C16, with C18 alterations. Timber-framed and rendered; plaintiled mansard roofs; a modillion eaves cornice to the main front. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 3 windows to the 1st storey and 2 to the 2nd storey, all sashes without glazing-bars in flush cased frames. The rear elevation to Skinner Street has the mansard roof jettied out above the 2nd storey and indications of a former jetty to the 1st storey also. Roughcast to both storeys; rendered in the apex of the gable. Sash windows, partly small-paned. INTERIOR: the cellar runs below both halves of the front. Heavy C16 cross-beams, chamfered, supported by timber posts at front and rear. Substantial joists set on edge. Brick walling, the bricks of various dates and 2 short vaulted sections running below the street. Few timbers exposed inside, none within the shops. The mansard roofs are a C18 addition.



Listing NGR: TL8527664309

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
467572
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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