7, WHITING STREET
7, WHITING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334457
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 7, WHITING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 7, WHITING STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334457
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 7, WHITING STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7, 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:
- 7, 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 85337 64125
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW WHITING STREET 639-1/14/691 (East side) 12/07/72 No.7
GV II
House, now shop and store. Mid C17 core; early C19 front; a large late C20 extension facing Langton Place. Timber-framed interior, white brick front; slate roof with paired mutule cornice to front slope, C20 concrete Roman tiles to rear slopes. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; framing in 2 ranges parallel to the street. 3 window range, arranged 1:1:1 with the 2 outer windows 12-pane sashes and the centre window wider, with additional narrow side-lights, all in plain reveals with flat gauged arches. A 6-panel door on the left has a fanlight with ornamental glazing bars and is recessed within a doubled brick arch. On the south side 2 stone steps, with rounded ends to the treads and wrought-iron handrails, lead to the former garden door, now used as the shop entrance. This has 2 leaves with horizontal glazing bars and a wooden blind box above. INTERIOR: brick lined cellar. The entrance door on left leads into a narrow passage with a fine mid-C17 open well stair at the end. This has dumb-bell balusters and newels, ball finials and moulded handrails and rises the full height of the house. The principal upper room is panelled throughout with C18 raised fielded panels and a dentil cornice. The fireplace has a moulded and eared surround in white figured marble, enclosed by fluted wood pilasters supporting a triglyph frieze. A similar marble surround to the ground storey fireplace is moulded but not eared. Clasped purlin roof to the rear range in 5 bays with only the purlins and collars exposed.
Listing NGR: TL8533764125
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467729
- 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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