8-11, COLLEGE STREET
8-11, COLLEGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248308
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 8-11, COLLEGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8-11, COLLEGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248308
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 8-11, COLLEGE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8-11, COLLEGE 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:
- 8-11, COLLEGE 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 85437 63988
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW COLLEGE STREET 639-1/15/269 (East side) 07/08/52 Nos.8-11 (Consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE STREET (East side) Nos.8-11 (Consecutive) William Barnaby Almshouses, 1826)
GV II
A terrace of 4 houses, formerly the William Barnaby Almshouses. 1826, rebuilt by William Steggles, on the site of a C16 foundation. In Tudor style. White brick front with stone quoins and dressings; red brick rear. Slate roofs with a brick dentil cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 8 window range, arranged 3:2:3, with the centre breaking forward slightly under a brick dentil pediment which has a central plaque inscribed 'Given by William Barnaby 1571 Rebuilt 1826'. The windows are all 2-light casements in Tudor style with ornate leaded panes and arched heads to lights, stone mullions and dripmoulds. A raised stone band runs between 1st and ground storeys. 4 recessed doors spaced across the front have stone dripmoulds and chamfered brick reveals. No.8 has 3 stone steps and No.9, 2. 4-panel doors with 2 leaves, the upper panels with applied mouldings which match the window tracery. 2 end and 3 internal chimney-stacks with plain rectangular shafts. The fenestration along the rear wall is all C20 replacement and includes 2 small-paned windows with intersecting Gothick-style tracery to the ogee heads. These almshouses, originally intended for 8 women and 8 men, are sold, and used as a builders' merchants warehouse from 1954 until 1978. They were restored as 4 privately-owned houses in 1980/81.
Listing NGR: TL8543763988
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466736
- 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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