71, SOUTHGATE STREET

71, SOUTHGATE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1272138
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:
71, SOUTHGATE STREET
Statutory Address:
71, SOUTHGATE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1272138
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:
71, SOUTHGATE STREET
Statutory Address 1:
71, SOUTHGATE 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
71, SOUTHGATE 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 86139 63323

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8663SW SOUTHGATE STREET 639-1/12/566 (East side) 12/07/72 No.71

GV II

House. Late C15/early C16 with C18 front. Timber-framed and formerly jettied; faced in red brick; roughcast render to south side. Roof with C20 single Roman tiles and a modillion eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellar and attic. 3 window range: sashes with single vertical glazing bars in flush cased frames with flat gauged arches. A 6-panel door has panelled pilasters and a pediment on enriched console brackets. INTERIOR: modernised cellar with rendered walls has segmental-arched niches all round. Frame in 3 bays. The north and centre bays have exposed timbers and ceilings: on the ground storey main cross-beams with a wide chamfer and closely-set unchamfered joists. The main beam of the central truss has a dovetail housing for a missing main post. On the upper storey the end walls have tension braces halved against the studs. Crown-post roof: plain crown-post with short braces to the collar-purlin; end trusses with additional short downward-sloping braces from posts to tie-beams. The end bay on the south is a later addition with most framing concealed.



Listing NGR: TL8613963323

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
467459
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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