17, GUILDHALL STREET
17, GUILDHALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363700
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 17, GUILDHALL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 17, GUILDHALL STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363700
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 17, GUILDHALL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17, 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:
- 17, 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 85272 64004
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW GUILDHALL STREET 639-1/14/368 (East side) 07/08/52 No.17
GV II
Formerly known as: The Three Goats Heads Inn GUILDHALL STREET. House; formerly an inn. C16 with C19 alterations. Timber-framed and rendered; plaintiled roof with 3 small cast-iron goats' heads on the eaves soffit; jettied along the street frontage, with a slight break in the line of the jetty indicating the junction of 2 frames. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 4 windows to the upper storey: 3 2-light casements with horizontal glazing bars only and one 12-pane sash window in a flush cased frame. On the ground storey, 3 16-pane sash windows in flush cased frames. A 6-panel entrance door in a plain surround. The joist ends of the jetty are covered with a plain fascia board. Plain wood eaves soffit. Later extensions at the rear. INTERIOR: cellar accessible only from No.18 (qv). Frame in 4 bays. The end bay on the south formed part of the adjoining house: dividing walls now removed. The 3 bays to the north originally contained a 2-bay hall and 2 service rooms; this layout was changed in the early C19. On the ground storey the chamfered cross-beams have cut-off stops; original partition walls all removed. A dado with raised fielded panels to the principal ground storey room. A large brick chimney-stack inserted at the south end has a plain cut-down cambered lintel with a Tudor brick arch above. On the upper storey part of the rear wallplate has been cut away and the rear roof pitch has been made shallower. Some good studding exposed with traces of red ochre colouring. A shutter slide in the front wallplate. The former open truss, now with a partition wall, has a peg-hole for a missing crown-post in the tie-beam. A small gabled rear extension has an upper room with C18 panelling to the fireplace surround and doors.
Listing NGR: TL8527264004
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466841
- 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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