47, ST NICHOLAS STREET, 1, SILENT STREET

1, SILENT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1265084
Date first listed:: 19-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: 47, ST NICHOLAS STREET, 1, SILENT STREET
Statutory Address:: 1, SILENT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1265084
Date first listed:: 19-Dec-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: 47, ST NICHOLAS STREET, 1, SILENT STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 1, SILENT STREET
Statutory Address 2:: 47, ST NICHOLAS STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1, SILENT STREET
Statutory Address:: 47, ST NICHOLAS 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 16263 44303

Details

1. 1260 SILENT STREET (North West Side)

No 1 TM 1644 SW 3/197 19.12.51.

II* GV

Including No 47 St Nicholas Street. A C15 timber-framed and plastered house with a cross wing at the south west end. It stands on the corner of Silent Street and St Nicholas Street with a return front on St Nicholas Street (No 47). The upper storey is jettied on both fronts and the timber-framing is exposed. The gable of the cross wing is also jettied. The main block has a small jettied gable at the north-east end. 2 storeys, attics and cellars. 3 window range on Silent Street and 2 window range on St Nicholas Street, casements with lattice leaded lights. The crosswing has a range of casements on the 1st storey with a central oriel bay in C15 style. The attics are lit by a window in the gable. The ground storey has a C20 corner shop in period style with the entrance cut out behind a fine carved corner post. The ground storey of the main block has a window with restored oak mullions, and below it a 4-centred blocked opening with carved spandrels. The whole building has been restored. The interior, on the 1st storey, has a fine plaster ceiling decorated with fleur-de-lis and Tudor roses. Roofs tiled. On the west side of the crosswing in St Nicholas Street there is a plaque which records that the birthplace of Wolsey's parents formerly stood on the opposite side of the street.

Nos 1 to 9 (odd) form a group with Nos 19 to 47 (odd), St Nicholas Street. Also Nos 1 to 9 (odd) form a group with Nos 6 and 8.

Listing NGR: TM1626344303

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Legacy System number:: 426046
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.