Gramercy Cottage
GRAMERCY COTTAGE, 148 AND 149, SOUTHGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272175
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gramercy Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GRAMERCY COTTAGE, 148 AND 149, SOUTHGATE STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272175
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gramercy Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAMERCY COTTAGE, 148 AND 149, 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:
- GRAMERCY COTTAGE, 148 AND 149, 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 85815 63753
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NE SOUTHGATE STREET 639-1/11/578 (West side) 31/05/85 Nos.148 AND 149 Gramercy Cottage
GV II
House. C16; extensively restored in late 1960s when most of No.148 was built in a style matching No.149 and the rear part of No.149 was completely replaced. Timber-framed and jettied; timbers exposed on the upper storey; rendered, apart from main posts, on the ground storey. Part old, part C20 plaintiled roof. Close studding along the upper front with tension braces at each end. The joist ends and bressumer of the jetty are exposed. Frame in 5 bays with main posts supported by brackets with moulded shafts. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and cellar. Four 12-pane sash windows to the upper storey and 3 to the ground storey, all in flush cased frames. Between the sashes on the upper storey are the remains of long original mullioned windows, partly blocked, with applied sills carved with running leaf motif. A similar window has been inserted into the upper storey of No.148. 5 gabled dormers with 2-light single bar casement windows across the whole front. The doorway of No.148 is at the south end of No.149, which has a recessed central 6-panel entrance door. INTERIOR: cellar, small and mainly modernised. Some timbering exposed on the ground storey although the original layout is now not clear. The narrower central bay, which now contains the entrance hall and stair, was previously a chimney bay. Most timbers are plain, with flat unchamfered joists, but in the end bay on the north the main beams have a double ogee moulding. On the upper storey the cambered tie-beams are supported by very long substantial arched braces with prominent assembly-marks. All the roof timbers were replaced during the 1960s restoration. (Colman S: External Photographs taken during restoration in 1960s).
Listing NGR: TL8581563753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467497
- 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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