1 AND 2, CHEQUER SQUARE
1 AND 2, CHEQUER SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248045
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, CHEQUER SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, CHEQUER SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248045
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, CHEQUER SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2, CHEQUER SQUARE
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:
- 1 AND 2, CHEQUER SQUARE
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 85551 64026
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SE CHEQUER SQUARE 639-1/8/228 (South side) 07/08/52 Nos.1 AND 2
GV II
A pair of houses, joined on the east with a splayed corner to No.50 Crown Street (qv). 1840. Rendered brick front, red brick to sides and rear. Slate roof. An internal chimney-stack with a plain rectangular white brick shaft. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basements. 5 window range: 12-pane sashes with semicircular arched heads to the ground and 1st storeys, and 9-pane sashes to the top storey, all in plain reveals. The 1st-storey windows are set into arched recesses and have cast-iron balconies in Neo-Greek style with palmettes. Doorways with semicircular arched heads; 2 4-panelled doors have fanlights with radiating glazing-bars. The basement openings below the ground-storey windows have cast-iron grilles in front with ornate balusters. It is known that the houses were built in 1840 from the Minutes of the Paving Commissioners, which record a dispute about the balconies overhanging the pavement. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TL8555164026
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466693
- 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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