8 AND 9, GUILDHALL STREET
8 AND 9, GUILDHALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363695
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 8 AND 9, GUILDHALL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8 AND 9, GUILDHALL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363695
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 8 AND 9, GUILDHALL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8 AND 9, GUILDHALL 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:
- 8 AND 9, GUILDHALL 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 85264 64131
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW GUILDHALL STREET 639-1/14/363 (East side) 12/07/72 Nos.8 AND 9
GV II
House, now divided into 2 shops and offices. Early C19. In white brick with a plain parapet and slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 5 window range: all sashes, 12-pane to the 1st storey, 9-pane to the 2nd storey with one blocked, in plain reveals with flat gauged arches. The ground storey has 2 C20 restored shop fronts: No.8 divided into 4 lights by vertical glazing bars, No.9 21-pane. Two 6-panel doors have pilastered wood doorcases and cornices. INTERIOR: No.8 was extensively modernised during the 1980s and has a number of reused timbers introduced into the ground floor area. On the 1st floor, 2 main posts which appear original remain, one with the housing for a brace, the other for a window sill. The 2nd storey is an early C19 addition. No.9 has a partly brick vaulted C16 cellar with 2 niches in each side wall. Very large main beams only are exposed on the ground storey. On the 1st storey the timbers are exposed along the north wall, the ceiling has been raised and one tie-beam moved. An original division into 2 rooms on each storey, but partition wall removed on ground storey and studding exposed without infill above. The rear has an altered clasped side purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TL8526464131
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466836
- 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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