46 AND 47, CROWN STREET

46 AND 47, CROWN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1342761
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:
46 AND 47, CROWN STREET
Statutory Address:
46 AND 47, CROWN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1342761
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:
46 AND 47, CROWN STREET
Statutory Address 1:
46 AND 47, CROWN 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
46 AND 47, CROWN 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 85562 63991

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NE CROWN STREET 639-1/11/316 (West side) 12/07/72 Nos.46 AND 47

GV II

A pair of houses. Early C18 with refronting of c1830. Timber-framed, fronted in white brick; shallow-pitched slate roof with a plain eaves soffit; an internal chimney-stack with a tall narrow rectangular white brick shaft. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars. 2 window range: 16-pane sashes to all 3 storeys in flush cased frames; flat arches to the 1st and 2nd storeys, slightly larger ground storey windows with segmental-arched heads to frames and surrounds. 2 plain semicircular-headed brick doorways have 6-panelled doors in reeded architraves with radial glazing-bars to the fanlights. Above the ground-storey window of No.46 a small plaque reads 'Restored 1977, D.M.G K.A.B.' INTERIOR: of No.47 much modernised. Cellar rendered with a replacement ceiling. On the 1st storey landing a section of mid-C18 balusters from the former stair with a replaced handrail. Stair to the 2nd storey with stick balusters and plain handrail. The principal room on the 1st storey has a late C18 fireplace with fluted engaged columns and a fluted frieze. On the 2nd storey the rear room has a fireplace with a bolection-moulded surround. No.46 has a fireplace in the 1st storey front room exactly like that in No.47; in the same room a plaster cornice with egg-and-dart and bead-and-reel ornament. 3 other upper rooms have cast-iron raised grates in C19 Gothick style. Stair with stick balusters and plain handrail.



Listing NGR: TL8556263991

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
466788
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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