12, SOUTHGATE STREET
12, SOUTHGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272211
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 12, SOUTHGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 12, SOUTHGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272211
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 12, SOUTHGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, 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:
- 12, 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 85863 63712
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NE SOUTHGATE STREET 639-1/11/555 (East side) 12/07/72 No.12
GV II
House, formerly with a shop. C14, with an early C19 rear extension. Timber-framed; exposed timbering on the front with widely-spaced studs and large tension braces. C20 double Roman tiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys: frame in 2 bays. 2 windows to each storey: 2-light small-paned casements to the upper storey and C20 small-paned sliding sashes to the ground storey. C20 door. The rear extension is in flint and brick with a slate roof. 2 12-pane sash windows in plain reveals to the 1st storey and one segmental-arched tripartite sash to the ground storey. INTERIOR: cellar below rear range has walling of flint, brick and stone and a replaced ceiling. Visible remains of the C14 house are sparse, but a survey made during restoration in the early 1980s records a number of original features then exposed. The house contains the former 2-bay open hall of a small C14 house, but no evidence survives for any other part of the building. A gap in the front framing of the larger south bay suggested the position of the hall window. Crown-post roof, the plain square crown-posts braced only to the collar-purlin and standing on straight arch-braced tie-beams. Prominent jowls to the post-heads of the truss. There is now a difference in ceiling heights on the ground storey between the 2 bays, which seem to have been floored over at different times. The wallplate along the front of the roof has been reinforced. In the rear range the ceiling in the ground storey room has been renewed. (Aitkens P: No.12 Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds).
Listing NGR: TL8586363712
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467414
- 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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