The Masons Arms Public House
THE MASONS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, 14, WHITING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334446
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Masons Arms Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MASONS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, 14, WHITING STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334446
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Masons Arms Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MASONS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, 14, WHITING 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:
- THE MASONS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, 14, WHITING 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 85327 64060
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW WHITING STREET 639-1/14/697 (East side) 12/07/72 No.14 The Masons Arms Public House
GV II
Public house. Early C16. Timber-framed; faced in alternating sections of plain and fluted C19 weatherboarding. Shallow pitched roof of asbestos slates. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellars; formerly with a hall range and 2 cross-wings. 4 window to the 1st storey: 12-pane sash windows in flush cased frames. 3 windows on the ground storey: 2 tripartite sashes and one plain sash, each with a single vertical glazing bar to the main lights. A moulded architrave and cornice to the doorway. A rendered cross-wing at the rear. INTERIOR: brick-lined cellar. On the ground storey all the ceiling timbers are exposed in the centre 2 bays of the former hall: chamfered main cross-beams with curved stepped stops, unchamfered joists set flat. The cross-wing at the south end has very heavy studding along its north wall with the infill removed, and the centre section is butted up against it with simply a main beam and middle rail to its frame. The rear of this wing now forms part of the back premises of No.15 (qv), which adjoins on the south. The wing on the north has only the main beams exposed. There is said to be no timbering exposed on the upper storey.
Listing NGR: TL8532764060
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467758
- 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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