The Market Tavern Public House
THE MARKET TAVERN PUBLIC HOUSE, 3, RISBYGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244897
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Market Tavern Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MARKET TAVERN PUBLIC HOUSE, 3, RISBYGATE STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-07-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/07594/13
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244897
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Market Tavern Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MARKET TAVERN PUBLIC HOUSE, 3, RISBYGATE 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:
- THE MARKET TAVERN PUBLIC HOUSE, 3, RISBYGATE 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 85155 64423
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW RISBYGATE STREET 639-1/7/527 (South side) 12/07/72 No.3 The Market Tavern Public House
GV II
Formerly known as: The Waggon Inn RISBYGATE STREET. House, now a public house. C19 front; C16 and C17 interior. Timber-framed and formerly jettied; fronted in painted brick; C20 pantiles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellars. 3 window range: 16-pane sashes in plain reveals. The ground storey windows are set in shallow segmental-arched recesses and the central doorway is in a semicircular arched recess. 2 segmental-headed dormers have 2-light small-paned casement windows. A long wing extends at the rear. INTERIOR: front range in 2 bays with a central cross entry bay between them. To left and right of the entry the main beams have multiple roll-mouldings with a cresting above, running leaf carving on the soffit and run-off stops. The joists have ogee and roll-mouldings and run-off stops. In the cross-entry the main beam has roll-mouldings, also on the soffit, and the joists double roll mouldings. On the left of the entry the studs of the partition wall are exposed with the infill removed: an original doorway remains with spandrels missing and traces of a roll-moulded surround. 2 later doorways have been inserted. Mouldings and a cresting continue round the left room. A chimney-stack on the rear wall has a plain lintel and a rounded back to the brickwork. The room to the right of the entry has a large rebuilt gable-end stack with a flat lintel, moulded on the soffit. The C17 rear range has some plain ceiling beams exposed. The upper storey is said to have no exposed framing.
Listing NGR: TL8515564423
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467120
- 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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