16 AND 17, CHURCHGATE STREET
16 AND 17, CHURCHGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248114
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 17, CHURCHGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 16 AND 17, CHURCHGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248114
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 17, CHURCHGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16 AND 17, 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:
- 16 AND 17, 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 85380 64052
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW CHURCHGATE STREET 639-1/14/236 (North side) 12/07/72 Nos.16 AND 17
GV II
House, divided into 2. C16, altered in the C18 and C19. Timber-framed and rendered with jettied front; plaintiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. 3 window range: 16-pane sashes in cased frames. The ground storey has an C18 bay with a moulded sill supported on plain curved brackets and an early C19 shop window with moulded pilasters and cornice, both with fixed 15-pane windows. 2 C20 gabled dormers with projecting eaves and 2-light small-paned casement windows. Solid arched brackets support the jettied front, which was widened to allow for the insertion of the later sash windows. 2 doorways with moulded surrounds: 4-panelled half-glazed door to No.16, and 8 sunk panels to No.17. INTERIOR: this was a single 3-cell 4-bay house, divided into 2 in the early C19 by stud partitions: No.16 now contains one-and-a-half bays and No.17 the remainder. The original framing is plain and substantial: main beams, posts, wallplates and some studding are exposed. Both end bays were partitioned off, leaving a 2-bay single-storey hall in the centre heated by a chimney-stack on the rear wall. The main cross-beams are plain and heavy with a chamfer and curved stepped stops. On the upper storey of No.17 widely spaced studding and tension bracing are exposed along one partition wall; in the front wallplate, a slightly splayed edge-halved and bridled scarf joint. Long jowls to the main posts. Unusually, both end bays have evidence for a former division into 2, with a row of mortices in the soffit of each main beam. In No.17 the sawn-off tenons of the partition studs are still in situ, whereas in No.16 there are no associated peg-holes or tenons, and the partition may never have been completed. Roof-timbers mainly concealed; roof-structure of a side-purlin type, probably clasped. This is one of several buildings in the town where the jetty has been widened to allow for Georgian sashes to be inserted: cf. Nos 25 & 26 (qv) for similar treatment.
Listing NGR: TL8538064052
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466703
- 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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