63 AND 65, ST JOHNS STREET
63 AND 65, ST JOHNS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313427
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 63 AND 65, ST JOHNS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 63 AND 65, ST JOHNS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313427
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 63 AND 65, ST JOHNS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 63 AND 65, ST JOHNS 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:
- 63 AND 65, ST JOHNS 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 85245 64584
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564NW ST JOHN'S STREET 639-1/3/609 (East side) Nos.63 AND 65
GV II
House, later divided into 3; now a pair of shops with storage above. C16 and C17 with C19 front. Timber-framed and rendered; jettied along the front; steeply-pitched slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellars. 3 window range to St John's Street: sashes without glazing bars in flush cased frames. A single sash window without glazing bars to the 1st storey of the gable end and a tripartite sash to the apex of the gable. Coving covers the jetty ends. 3 separate shop fronts, 2 now to No.63. 3 entrance doors, 2 near the south end, the other in the north-west corner. INTERIOR: 2 brick-lined cellars below No.63. The 2 C16 bays to the right of the front originally formed one room but are now divided on the line of the open truss between Nos 63 and 65. The southernmost bay (No.63) has cross-beams to the ground-storey ceiling with double ogee mouldings. The beam below the open truss, now on the line of the partition wall, is supported by small shallow arched braces with hollow chamfer mouldings. On the 1st storey the rear main post of the truss has a long jowl and heavy arched brace. Plastered attic. A small rear wing has no visible original features. On the ground storey of No.65 the partition wall with No.63 has plank-and-muntin panelling; on the 1st storey it is faced by square Jacobean panelling. The end bay on the left is an addition of the later C17 with a thick dividing wall, probably of flint rubble, now partly removed to give access. On the 1st storey, a contrast of framing between the 2 bays, the added bay having long straight primary braces, bisected studs and also indications of window alterations on the rear wall. Attics plastered. A 2-storey C18 cottage with internal chimney at the rear, probably originally divided into 2, now forms part of the premises of No.63. It contains no visible features of interest.
Listing NGR: TL8524564584
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467273
- 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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