153, SOUTHGATE STREET
153, SOUTHGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272180
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 153, SOUTHGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 153, 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:
- 1272180
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 153, SOUTHGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 153, 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:
- 153, 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 85802 63773
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NE SOUTHGATE STREET 639-1/11/579 (West side) 31/05/85 No.153
GV II
House. C16, considerably altered in 1960s when a 2-storey rear extension was added. Timber-framed and jettied, the timbers exposed on the upper storey and rendered below. Old plaintiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellar and attics. 2 window range: 12-pane sashes in flush cased frames to the 1st storey, one 12-pane sash and one tripartite sash with diminished side lights to the ground storey. These replace the older ground floor front which had small-paned early C19 shop windows. One gabled dormer with plain bargeboards has a C20 2-light standard casement window. Recessed C20 entrance door on the right. INTERIOR: cellar, with re-used stone blocks in the walls, is divided into 2 by an old partition wall with a low shallow-arched C15 stone doorway. Several niches in the walls. At the north end the supporting base of the chimney-stack which is shared with No.154 (qv). Frame in 2 bays with ceiling timbers and some studding exposed on the ground storey. 2 main ceiling beams with ogee mouldings are re-used and have housings for joists parallel to the front.The present joists are plain and unchamfered, set at right-angles to the front to form the jetty. In the south end wall a beam with roll-moulding has long mortices for arched braces which do not fit its present position. The chimney-stack is in Tudor brick with a shallow C19 brick arch. Some studding exposed on the 1st storey; a reset 3-light mullioned window on the rear wall. Attics fully plastered. (Colman S: External Photographs taken during restoration in 1960s).
Listing NGR: TL8580263773
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467502
- 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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