The Queens Head Public House
THE QUEENS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 38A AND 39, CHURCHGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248211
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Queens Head Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE QUEENS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 38A AND 39, CHURCHGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248211
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Queens Head Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE QUEENS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 38A AND 39, 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:
- THE QUEENS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 38A AND 39, 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 85495 64053
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW CHURCHGATE STREET 639-1/14/252 (South side) 12/07/72 Nos.38A AND 39 The Queen's Head Public House
GV II
2 buildings: No.38A formerly a house and shop, but now linked with No.39 as a public house. Mid C19 with an older core. White brick and slates. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys to No.38A; on a corner site. 2 window range to both fronts: sashes in plain reveals with flat gauged arches and projecting stone sills, 12-pane to the 1st storey, 9-pane to the 2nd. Between the 2 fronts, a splayed corner which has a C20 shop front to the ground storey in traditional style, with 2 small-paned windows flanking a half-glazed entrance door below a moulded fascia. To each side of the shop front is a 12-pane sash window and, on the Churchgate Street front, a door. No.39 is 2-storey with extensive cellars. 5 window range: 12-pane sashes to both storeys, all in deep reveals with flat gauged arches and projecting stone sills. The central doorway has a plain semicircular brick arch, fanlight with a fan motif and a half-glazed door with 2 leaves. INTERIOR: the cellars have some walling of kidney flint and stone blocks but are mainly of C19 brick. On the ground storey of both parts of the building boxed-in beams indicate a timber core to the structure, but nothing is visible above ground storey level and both roofs have been replaced.
Listing NGR: TL8549564053
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466719
- 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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