Robertsons the Eyegate Bookshop
ROBERTSONS, 102, ST HELENS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264211
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Robertsons the Eyegate Bookshop
- Statutory Address:
- ROBERTSONS, 102, ST HELENS STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07595/23
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264211
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Robertsons the Eyegate Bookshop
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROBERTSONS, 102, ST HELENS STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE EYEGATE BOOKSHOP, 104, ST HELENS 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:
- ROBERTSONS, 102, ST HELENS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE EYEGATE BOOKSHOP, 104, ST HELENS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Ipswich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 17093 44512
Details
1. ST HELENS STREET (SOUTH SIDE) 5379 No 102, Robertsons, and TM 1744 8/320 No 104, The Eyegate Bookshop
II GV
2. 2 shops formerly one building. Early to mid C17, altered, and extended to rear. Timber framed, rendered, brick gable walls, to left cladding timber frame, asbestos tile roofs. Central C19 axial stack. 2 cells, possibly surviving from a larger building. T plan, the rear extension added. 2 storeys. Ground floor shop windows to left and right, each with single central vertical glazing bar. Doors set at angle to each side of through passage under stack. First floor left 9-pane sash; right hand sash in similar opening, and smaller central light, both part obscured by fascia of shop front. Modillion cornice. Interior: No 102, ground floor covered, first floor apparently intact timber frame to front and rear, boarded or covered, fragments of fielded panelling reset against stack. Probably original roof. No 104. Some exposed frame with original wattle infil. Chamfered beams and joists with lambs tongue stops, but some reordered; first floor front, two, 2-light ovolo mullioned windows, one each side of former larger window, now containing C20 sash. Original stack at ground floor with quarter moulded stop chamfered bressumer.
Listing NGR: TM1709344512
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428466
- 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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