Weavers Rest
WEAVERS REST, 80, SOUTHGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1272141
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Weavers Rest
- Statutory Address:
- WEAVERS REST, 80, SOUTHGATE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1272141
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Weavers Rest
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEAVERS REST, 80, 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.
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:
- WEAVERS REST, 80, 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 86094 63342
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8663SW SOUTHGATE STREET 639-1/12/567 (West side) 07/08/52 No.80 Weavers Rest
GV II*
Formerly known as: Nos.78, 79 AND 80 SOUTHGATE STREET. House. Late C15 and C16. Timber-framed and jettied, with the studding exposed on the upper storey; render to the ground storey. C20 plaintiled roof. An internal chimney-stack has 3 attached hexagonal shafts on a plain rectangular base. 4 bays, with the 2 outer bays added to the earlier 2-bay centre. The bressumer is in 3 distinct sections, the 2 outer bays with an ogee-moulding and the centre bays with a complex variant of running leaf motif. Below the jetty the main posts have the remains of ornate brackets and shafts. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar; 4 windows to the upper storey, three 3-light casements and one 2-light, all with 4 panes to each light. 2 have the remains of carved oriel bases. The ground storey has 5 windows: three 16-pane sashes in flush cased frames to the south of the entry and 2 small-paned casements on the north. Recessed entrance door up steps is in the original entry position: bracketed and shafted door-posts and an arched head with spandrels. INTERIOR: a small cellar below the south end of the house has timber joists and a section of large ashlar blocks below the original rear wall. The 2 wide central bays formed the hall of the original house with a large end chimney-stack. The main cross-beams have a double ogee-moulding which is continued round the walls. The brick of the chimney has traces of red ochre colouring; the large cambered lintel spans a reduced opening and the stack was cut back on one side to allow a doorway into the bay added at the south end. The south room has plain main timbers. Old plans indicate that the north bay was originally a cross-wing with an internal chimney-stack, but the rear portion has been demolished. The ground storey room has a main beam with double roll-moulding, the moulding continued round the walls. A later straight flight of stairs is in a lean-to extension behind the central bays. The south bay has a heavy cambered tie-beam with arched braces on the upper storey. The north wall of the central section has heavy exposed studding and bracing on the upper storey, cut through to give access to the later north end. Clasped purlin roof, the rafters pegged to the purlins; cambered collars.
Listing NGR: TL8609463342
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467462
- 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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