Ancient House Oak House
ANCIENT HOUSE, 33A, EASTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1343595
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ancient House Oak House
- Statutory Address:
- ANCIENT HOUSE, 33A, EASTGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1343595
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Ancient House Oak House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANCIENT HOUSE, 33A, EASTGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- OAK HOUSE, 33B, EASTGATE 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:
- ANCIENT HOUSE, 33A, EASTGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- OAK HOUSE, 33B, EASTGATE 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 85986 64569
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564NE EASTGATE STREET 639-1/4/340 (North side) 07/08/52 Nos.33A AND 33B Ancient House (No.33A) and Oak House (No.33B) (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET (North side) Nos.33, 33A, AND 33B Ancient House (No.33A) and Oak House (No.33B))
GV II*
House, now divided into 2. C15, refronted in the C18. Timber-framed, with some timbering exposed, but mainly rendered; plaintiles. On a corner site. Half-H form with a central range and 2 gabled and jettied cross-wings: on the east the wing is jettied on 2 sides with a moulded bressumer supported by 5 brackets with moulded capitals and shafts along the side and a corner-post bearing the damaged figure of an angel. At the north-east end is a small section with close studding exposed on the upper storey. Each of the gables has pierced and fluted C19 bargeboards with spike finials. The centre wall has been built up on the upper storey above the level of the original wallplate. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; 12-pane sash windows are spaced irregularly across the front, 3 to the upper storey on the Eastgate Street front and 5 to the ground storey; 3 along the upper storey on Barn Lane, all in flush cased frames. The Ancient House has a 4-panel door in a moulded architrave and a flat cornice hood on shaped brackets. Oak House has a panelled door on the Barn Lane frontage flanked by 2 narrow windows. INTERIOR: not inspected. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 152).
Listing NGR: TL8598664569
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466811
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 152
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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