Chantry House
CHANTRY HOUSE, 5, HATTER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246714
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chantry House
- Statutory Address:
- CHANTRY HOUSE, 5, HATTER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246714
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chantry House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHANTRY HOUSE, 5, HATTER 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:
- CHANTRY HOUSE, 5, HATTER 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 85417 64123
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW HATTER STREET 639-1/14/417 (East side) 07/08/52 No.5 Chantry House
GV II
House. C18 with C17 or earlier core. Red brick front with a parapet and stone cornice; timber-framed and rendered rear. Slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars. 4 window range: sashes without glazing-bars in flush cased frames, except for 2 windows on the 2nd storey which have 6 panes. Entrance door, with 6 raised fielded panels and a semicircular fanlight with enriched radiating glazing-bars, set in a doorcase with panelled reveals, panelled pilasters and an open pediment. Complex rendered rear with several gables. INTERIOR: mainly Georgian. Panelled dados in entrance hall, full height panelling to 2 ground storey rooms with torus mouldings to the panels. 4-panel doors throughout, with sunk panels and applied mouldings, in surrounds with eared architraves. One bolection moulded fireplace surround on the upper storey. A fine stair of c1700 rises 2 storeys: barley-sugar twist balusters, closed and moulded strings, heavy square newels and moulded flat handrail. One wing at the rear has a high exposed C17 main beam, off centre.
Listing NGR: TL8541764123
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466891
- 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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