7A AND 8, COLLEGE ROAD
7A AND 8, COLLEGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248302
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 7A AND 8, COLLEGE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 7A AND 8, COLLEGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248302
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 7A AND 8, COLLEGE ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7A AND 8, COLLEGE ROAD
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:
- 7A AND 8, COLLEGE ROAD
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 85422 63936
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW COLLEGE LANE 639-1/15/263 (South side) Nos.7A AND 8
GV II
House, now with a separate flat on the 2nd and part of the 1st storey. C16 core; C19 and early C20 alterations. Timber-framed and roughcast- rendered; white brick to ground storey at the west end; slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys: a short cross-wing at the west end with a gabled roof. The main range has 4 windows on the 1st storey, one sash with a single vertical glazing-bar and 3 narrow paired sashes without glazing bars. Two 16-pane sashes to the top storey and also to the ground storey, all in flush cased frames. The recessed 6-panel entrance door to No.8 has 4 sunk upper panels with moulded surrounds and 2 flush lower panels. A heavy wood doorcase with a flat cornice hood. No.7A has a later half-glazed door. The cross-wing has a wide tripartite sash window without glazing bars to the ground storey and a 2-light Edwardian casement window to the 1st storey with small panes to the top lights. Similar windows on the 1st storey along the west side which has a projecting rectangular bay with heavy Edwardian Jacobean mullion-and-transom windows on the ground storey. INTERIOR: a timber frame runs through the whole building but is heavily overlaid with Edwardian work. Most features, including the stair and the heavy 3-light 'Gothic' window on the half-landing, are of late C19 or early C20 date. The wing at the west end has good exposed studding on the 1st storey. A heavily-weathered post in the west wall with a mortice for a window-sill is on the line of the original rear wall, which was removed when a small rear extension and chimney-stack were added. The top storey is also an addition.
Listing NGR: TL8542263936
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466730
- 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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