12, CHURCHGATE STREET
12, CHURCHGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248112
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 12, CHURCHGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 12, CHURCHGATE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248112
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 12, CHURCHGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, CHURCHGATE 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:
- 12, CHURCHGATE 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 85334 64043
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW CHURCHGATE STREET 639-1/14/234 (North side) 12/07/72 No.12
GV II
Shop with flat above, forming one range with Nos 15 and 16 Whiting Street (qv). C16, raised and fronted in the early C19. Timber-framed, with a white brick facade; slate roof with a plain brick parapet and moulded stone cornice. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 3 window range, 1:1:1 with the centre window on each storey blank: 12-pane sashes to the 1st storey in deep reveals with stone sills and flat arches; similar 6-pane sashes to the 2nd storey. On the ground storey one similar sash window and a small C19 shop front with reeded pilasters and cornice. Door up 2 steps. A recessed niche with foot-scraper beside the door. INTERIOR: in 2 bays with an exposed timber ceiling on the ground storey: multiple roll-mouldings to the main beam, cross-beams, and the cornices in the 2 side walls; single roll-moulding to the joists. The boarding between the joists is unplastered. A blocked fireplace in the west wall has a large plain cambered lintel. The small fireplace above on the 1st storey has the brickwork exposed and a cambered timber lintel with the remains of painted decoration in a design apparently of fruit and flowers. In the wall over the upper fireplace a cambered tie-beam with 3 empty mortices for the beams of a former cambered ceiling. Studding along the rear upper wall includes a blocked original window; the main post of the open truss has an empty mortice for a long brace to the tie-beam. The top storey is an early C19 addition. A cellar below the eastern bay is approached by an old winder stair with stone lower treads.
Listing NGR: TL8533464043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466701
- 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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