47, ST NICHOLAS STREET, 1, SILENT STREET
1, SILENT STREET
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426046
- 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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