6, ST JOHNS STREET
6, ST JOHNS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245020
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 6, ST JOHNS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 6, ST JOHNS STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245020
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 6, ST JOHNS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, ST JOHNS 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:
- 6, ST JOHNS 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 85220 64494
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW ST JOHN'S STREET 639-1/7/598 (West side) 12/07/72 No.6
GV II
House; now shop and offices. C16 with C18 front and C19 alterations. Timber-framed and rendered; steeply-pitched slate roof with wide eaves and a moulded plaster cornice. L-shaped plan with a contemporary rear wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; 2 window range: sashes in flush cased frames with a single vertical glazing bar to lights. One similar window on the ground storey and a wide C19 double shop front with glazing bars which overlaps with the adjoining No.7 (qv). 2 gabled dormers have sashes with vertical glazing bars and plain bargeboards. A 6-panel door in a plain wood architrave has a rectangular fanlight with vertical glazing bars. A heavy blind box above the door and shop fascia and a scrolled cast-iron bracket for a hanging sign projecting between the upper windows. At the rear, the 2-storey timber-framed C16 wing is rendered and roughcast, with C20 plaintiles and an end chimney-stack. A small 2-storey C19 extension has a shallow-pitched slate roof. INTERIOR: no cellar. Front range originally jettied, in 2 wide bays, divided into 2 rooms with exposed main beams on the ground storey with shallow double roll mouldings. A similar moulding to the main beam in the rear wing. A beam with ogee moulding and a cresting which is set near the front wall of the northern bay may be a reversed fascia beam which covered the joist ends of the former jetty. The upper rooms are high, with only plain main ceiling beams exposed; a corner fireplace in one room. Plastered attics.
Listing NGR: TL8522064494
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467179
- 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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