Priory Gate
PRIORY GATE, 57, FRIARS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285460
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Gate
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY GATE, 57, FRIARS STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/10413/21
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285460
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY GATE, 57, FRIARS 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:
- PRIORY GATE, 57, FRIARS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sudbury
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 87062 41036
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/01/2013
TL 8741 3/60
3.3.52
FRIARS STREET (south east side)
No 57 (Priory Gate)
II*
Former gatehouse to Dominican Priory, now house. Circa 1500, with
alterations and additions of c1830 and mid C20. Timber framed, of 2
storeys. Front is in 2 phases. To right the original gatehouse has
exposed close studding and a plaintiled roof. Jettied first floor
supported on solid brackets rising from buttress shafts with carved
capitals. Moulded and embattled mid rail (except right hand bay),
4-centre arched carriage entrance, now blocked, with good foliage-carved
spandrels. An adjacent pedestrian entrance has a renewed 4-centred arch,
over which is a range of 5 plank and muntin panels. C20 boarded and
battened doors. The jetty over this entrance has been cut back and
replaced by a plaintiled pent roof, and the structure above now forms
part of the c1830 addition. This later work is rendered, with a slated
roof and a chimney stack at the gable end. Both phases have 12- and
16-paned sash windows in flush frames. The rear is also rendered, with
C20 casement windows. Interior: Continuous jetty to former rear wall of
gatehouse. Intact rear carriageway arch, similar to front but with no
carving in the spandrels. The feet of 2 posts in the rear wall retain
cranked down braces protecting them from damage from wheeled traffic,
rare survivals. There is evidence for similar braces in the front wall.
Both entrances have chamfered ceiling beams and plain closely-spaced
joists, with no firm evidence of partitioning between them. To right of
carriage entrance is a one-bay room, presumably for a porter: blocked
diamond-mullioned window in side wall, ceiling with large trimmed
stair trap, altered rear wall. Some heavy first floor studding, 2 renewed
diamond-mullioned windows. Open truss with cambered tie beam and long
braces forming 4-centred arch (one brace missing). A second truss, also
apparently open, had shorter braces, now missing. Crown-post roof: plain
posts with 2-way plank-like bracing to the collar purlin, mostly intact
coupled rafters.
Listing NGR: TL8706241036
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 276008
- 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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