85 AND 86, EASTGATE STREET
85 AND 86, EASTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343600
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 85 AND 86, EASTGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 85 AND 86, EASTGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343600
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 85 AND 86, EASTGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 85 AND 86, 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:
- 85 AND 86, 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 86147 64625
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8664NW EASTGATE STREET 639-1/5/345 (South side) 12/07/72 Nos.85 AND 86
GV II
A pair of houses, probably originally one. Mid 17 with late C18/early C19 alterations. Timber-framed and rendered above a high brick and flint plinth; C20 Roman tiles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; cellar to No.85 only. 2 end and one internal chimney-stack each with a plain red brick shaft. 4 windows to each storey, irregularly spaced: small-paned sliding sashes to the 1st storey, 12-pane sashes to the ground storey, all in flush cased frames. 2 6-panel entrance doors, each approached up a flight of steps with wooden handrails. No.85 also has a door within the plinth. INTERIOR: No.85: cellar with renewed ceiling is only half below ground and was formerly used as a stable. Walls of rough flint and re-used stone. Frame in 3 bays. One roughly chamfered ground storey ceiling beam with scroll stops, the remainder boxed. The internal stack is of C17 brick; open fireplace with a plain timber lintel. Remains of a bread oven. On the upper storey the dividing tie-beam has had its studding replaced. A long shutter slide in the front wallplate. Roof in 4 bays, apparently a C18 replacement, with clasped purlins, deep straight collars, ridge piece. The rafters are thin and on edge, some re-used, with traces of smoke-blackening.
Listing NGR: TL8614764625
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466816
- 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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