7 AND 8, HATTER STREET
7 AND 8, HATTER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246716
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 7 AND 8, HATTER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 7 AND 8, HATTER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246716
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 7 AND 8, HATTER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7 AND 8, 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:
- 7 AND 8, 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 85422 64087
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW HATTER STREET 639-1/14/419 (East side) 07/08/52 Nos.7 AND 8
GV II
House, later a pair of houses, now divided into 5 flats. Early C19, with an earlier core. Timber-framed; faced in white brick; the slate roof, with a wood dentil eaves cornice, has pedimented wide wings and a slightly recessed centre. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 5 window range, arranged 2:1:2: 12-pane sashes in plain reveals with flat gauged arches and projecting stone sills, apart from the 1st storey centre which has a large Venetian window with the upper arch blocked and a raised stone band at sill level. The sash window above it is flanked by 2 circular stone-framed bulls-eye windows. The ground storey has 2 balanced 6-panelled doors, with elliptical arched doorways and a 12-pane sash window between them, set in a tetrastyle recess with Tuscan columns. The back wall is in flint rubble: a 12-pane sash window with a Gothick head lights the stair. A rear wing extends at each end. On the north, behind No.7, the wing has walling in a mixture of flint, old red brick and reused stone, with rough stone quoining; on the south, behind No.8, the 2-storey rear is timber-framed and rendered with a C20 extension at the east end. INTERIOR: the entrance hall has an early C19 central stair with one flight dividing above a half-landing into 2: stick balusters, moulded newels, a plain wreathed handrail and closed strings. The timber-framed range running through from the back into the front of No.8 is the oldest part of the building with the top storey on the street frontage added in the early C19. Several main beams exposed or boxed-in on the ground storey, 2 with heavy ornate brackets.
Listing NGR: TL8542264087
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466893
- 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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