Dolphin House
DOLPHIN HOUSE, 50, CANNON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248043
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Dolphin House
- Statutory Address:
- DOLPHIN HOUSE, 50, CANNON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248043
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Dolphin House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOLPHIN HOUSE, 50, CANNON 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:
- DOLPHIN HOUSE, 50, CANNON 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 85425 64831
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564NW CANNON STREET, Pea Porridge Green 639-1/3/226 (West side) 12/07/72 No.50 Dolphin House
GV II
Formerly known as: The Dolphin Inn CANNON STREET. House, formerly an inn. Late C18. Timber-framed and roughcast rendered; a plaintiled mansard roof with fishscale bands to the lower slope and decorative crest tiles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellar and attics; a long 2-storey rear range. 2 end chimney-stacks with plain rectangular red brick shafts and corbelled heads. 2 window range: 12-pane sashes to the 1st storey and 16-pane to the ground storey, all in flush cased frames. 2 early C19 sloping-headed dormers with 8-pane pivotal sashes. A central doorway with a plain doorcase and blank rectangular fanlight has a late C20 panelled door with integral fanlight. Roughcast and pantiles to the rear range. INTERIOR: the infill to the partition walls has been removed on the ground storey of the front range to make a single open area which still retains C19 vertical boarding. Some small softwood beams exposed.
Listing NGR: TL8542564831
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466691
- 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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