Stayer House
STAYER HOUSE, 52, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316595
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Stayer House
- Statutory Address:
- STAYER HOUSE, 52, CASTLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316595
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Stayer House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STAYER HOUSE, 52, CASTLE 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:
- STAYER HOUSE, 52, CASTLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eye
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 14813 73716
Details
EYE
TM1473 CASTLE STREET 585-1/7/53 (South side) 15/06/51 No.52 Stayer House (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE STREET (South side) Sayer House)
GV II*
House. Medieval hall house to front extended in late C16 into surviving timber-framed rear range running north-south. Block in south-east angle added c1650. Hall house replaced in mid C18 with brick front range, itself refronted c1820. Single storey banking hall constructed against east return early C19. (Whitewashed brick laid in Flemish bond to front, timber-frame to rear). Red and black-glazed pantiled roof to front range, plaintiles to rear wing. EXTERIOR: facade of 2 storeys. 5-window range. 6-panelled central door with Y-traceried fanlight. Projecting porch on two pairs of Ionic columns supporting plain entablature. Two 6/6 unhorned sashes right and left. First floor with five 3/6 unhorned sashes, the centre window with an arched head. Double modillion eaves cornice below plain parapet partly concealing twin hipped roofs. 2 stacks in centre valley. Banking hall under hipped slate roof: tall 3-light casement with glazing bars to north, doorway in east return. Rear wing of 2 storeys. West side is a 7-window range. Exposed studwork. Fenestration of 2-light and 3-light leaded casements, most with hood moulds. 2 eastern framing bays converted to external loggia. Gabled roof with internal gable-end stack to north. South gable wall of brick, against which is a single-storey lean-to. East face of this wing has a brick ground floor. INTERIOR: between rear wing and front block remains arched exterior door of former hall house. Front block. North room with bolection-moulded fireplace and 6-panelled doors. Rear room with marble fireplace with Ionic columns, re-sited mid C20. Closed-string early C19 staircase with stick balusters and ramped handrail. Rear first-floor east room with domed ceiling plastered over flat in late C20. C17 south-east block in angle with two principal ranges has a sunk-quadrant moulded bridging beam. Former banking hall converted to kitchen during World War II. Rear wing. Ground floor opened into one large room. Frame with chamfered principal posts with splayed tops supporting chamfered bridging beams. Wide fireplace with plain
bressumer. Clasped purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TM1481373716
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468305
- 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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