Chequer House
CHEQUER HOUSE, 4, CHEQUER SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248047
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chequer House
- Statutory Address:
- CHEQUER HOUSE, 4, CHEQUER SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248047
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chequer House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHEQUER HOUSE, 4, 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:
- CHEQUER HOUSE, 4, 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 85530 64048
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SE CHEQUER SQUARE 639-1/8/230 (West side) 07/08/52 No.4 Chequer House
GV II
House, now divided into flats with a shop on part of the first storey. Early C19 with core of c1700. White brick; slate roof with parapet and cornice. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars, which also run below No.5 (not included). 5 window range, arranged 2:1:2 with the centre breaking forward slightly. The first storey windows extend to floor level and are set into semicircular-headed recesses with stucco impost bands. All windows are 12-pane sashes with flat gauged heads and deep reveals. A cast-iron balcony with ornate railings runs across the whole first storey front. The central doorway has a 6-panelled double door with circular middle panels and a fanlight with ornamental glazing which is set into a shallow double-arched recess with plain stucco impost bands. A late C19 2-storey rear extension in white brick with slate roof. INTERIOR: the cellar, divided into 3 sections, is mainly lined with old bricks; some flint rubble along the front wall. Reused ceiling-beams, some with C16 mouldings. The outstanding feature of the interior is the fine late C17/early C18 open well stair with heavy barley-sugar twist balusters, plain moulded handrail, square newel posts, moulded closed strings and panelled dado. It rises the whole height of the house and terminates in a balustrade across the landing of the top storey. The panels of the dado were mainly replaced in the early C19, but several sections with bolection-moulded surrounds survive, and on the 1st storey the 6-panel doors have bolection-moulding to the architraves. This building stands on the site of the former Chequer Inn. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 150-151).
Listing NGR: TL8553064048
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466697
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 150-151
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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