Gatehouse

36 AND 38, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1316610
Date first listed:
12-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:
Gatehouse
Statutory Address:
36 AND 38, CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1316610
Date first listed:
12-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:
Gatehouse
Statutory Address 1:
36 AND 38, CHURCH STREET
Statutory Address 2:
GATEHOUSE, 34, CHURCH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
36 AND 38, CHURCH STREET
Statutory Address:
GATEHOUSE, 34, CHURCH 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 14742 73865

Details

EYE

TM1473 CHURCH STREET 585-1/7/67 (South side) Nos.34, 36 AND 38 Gatehouse (No.34)

GV II

3 houses. Early C16, remodelled mid C19. Plastered and colourwashed timber frame. Slate roof. 2 storeys on tarred brick plinth. 6-window range. Carriageway to extreme right, with double C19 timber doors. Room above lit through a 2-light casement set within recessed 4-centred panel, with a timber apron below intended for tradesman's nameplate. Remainder of facade with 3 panelled doors set within timber doorcases with hoods supported on scrolled consoles. Fenestration of ground floor alternates uniformly between three 3-light casements and two 2-light casements, all under hoods on label stops. Five 2-light casements to first floor, also with hoods on label stops. Shallow-pitch gabled roof. 2 ridge stacks and one internal gable-end stack to west. INTERIOR: timber frame of heavy scantling, with jowled principal posts and chamfered bridging beams. Early C16 crown post roof truncated in mid C19 at purlin level, leaving mortices for former arched braces.

Listing NGR: TM1474273865

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
468320
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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