Unicorn House
UNICORN HOUSE, 57, EASTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343598
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Unicorn House
- Statutory Address:
- UNICORN HOUSE, 57, EASTGATE STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/11165/12
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343598
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Unicorn House
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNICORN HOUSE, 57, 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:
- UNICORN HOUSE, 57, 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 86180 64667
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8664NW EASTGATE STREET 639-1/5/343 (North side) 12/07/72 No.57 Unicorn House (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET (North side) No.61)
GV II
Former public house, now a house. Late C15/early C16; late C20 modernised exterior and rear extensions. Timber-framed and rendered; pantiles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar, partly above ground; now a 3-cell plan with internal chimney-stack. 3 window range: small-paned C20 casements to the upper storey, the 2 outer windows 2-light, the central window 3-light with a narrow middle light. On the ground storey one 2-light casement window with top lights and 2 fixed small-pane windows with top-opening lights. A window within the high plinth at pavement level lights the cellar. On the west gable a square C20 bay with a gabled pantiled roof and 3 small-paned windows. Entry now at the rear. INTERIOR: extensive cellar, with walling of large kidney flints, now modernised and part of the living area. Timbers exposed in parts of interior. The frame is in 4 bays with a 3-cell plan, the remains of a cross-entry and an internal chimney-stack with 2 back-to-back hearths. The hall is in one long bay and there is no bay for the chimney which appears inserted. One open fireplace has a large cambered and roll- moulded lintel. The house has undergone considerable changes: signs of charring and smoke-blackening on the upper timbers suggest a former open hall, but the clasped purlin roof is unblackened. Tension braces in one cross-wall; one tie-beam and post have empty mortices for arched braces. The 2 eastern bays have C17 ceiling joists. Curious drawings in red ochre on the plaster within the roof space may be of windmills.
Listing NGR: TL8618064667
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466814
- 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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