Eastgate House
EASTGATE HOUSE, 118, EASTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343602
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Eastgate House
- Statutory Address:
- EASTGATE HOUSE, 118, EASTGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343602
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Eastgate House
- Statutory Address 1:
- EASTGATE HOUSE, 118, 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:
- EASTGATE HOUSE, 118, 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 85959 64504
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564NE EASTGATE STREET 639-1/4/347 (South side) 07/08/52 No.118 Eastgate House
GV II
House, now divided into sheltered flats. C17 core; early C19 front; extensively modernised in the late 1980s. Part timber-framed and rendered with old plaintiled roof; the main range fronted in white brick with a hipped slate roof, wide eaves cornice and paired mutule soffit. EXTERIOR: part 2-storey, part 3-storey; set sideways-on to the street. The 3-storey range has 3 windows to each storey, arranged 1:1:1 with the centre breaking forward slightly: all sashes in plain reveals with flat gauged arches and projecting stone sills, 12-pane to the 1st storey, deeper 12-pane, reaching to ground level, to the ground storey. 6-pane to the 2nd storey, with vertical glazing-bars only. A raised stone band runs at sill level below the 1st storey windows. The central entrance has columns in antis and a segmental fanlight with intersecting glazing bars. Door with 6 raised fielded panels. The north side is directly on to the street. Rendered, with a single sash window to the ground and 1st storeys, both sashes in flush cased frames, 12-pane to the upper storey, 16-pane to the lower. A plaque on one side reads: 'Sir Thomas Hanmer, Speaker of the House of Commons, born 1677, died 1746'. The 2-storey range to the south is rendered, with 3 sash windows, irregularly spaced, to the 1st storey: two 16-pane, one 12-pane, all in flush cased frames. A deeper 12-pane sash to the ground storey in a cased frame with slight reveals. On the right, a 6-panel door with the top 2 panels glazed in a moulded and eared architrave. INTERIOR: few features prior to the early C19 survive inside. The whole range was originally timber-framed; the line of the original wallplate in the brick-fronted section is just below the tops of the 1st storey windows.
Listing NGR: TL8595964504
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466818
- 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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