The Black Boy Public House
THE BLACK BOY PUBLIC HOUSE, 69, GUILDHALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363705
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Black Boy Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE BLACK BOY PUBLIC HOUSE, 69, GUILDHALL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363705
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Black Boy Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BLACK BOY PUBLIC HOUSE, 69, 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:
- THE BLACK BOY PUBLIC HOUSE, 69, 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 85260 63919
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW GUILDHALL STREET 639-1/15/391 (West side) 12/07/72 No.69 The Black Boy Public House (Formerly Listed as: GUILDHALL STREET (West side) No.69 Black Boy Inn)
GV II
Public house. C17, with C19 and C20 alterations. Timber-framed; jettied along the street frontage; faced in C19 red brick on the ground storey and with tile-hanging in alternate bands of plain and scalloped tiles to the 1st storey. Plaintiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellar. An internal chimney-stack has 4 saw-tooth shafts on a rectangular base with a front panel. 3 windows to the 1st storey: all 3-light early C20 casements with a single horizontal glazing bar in a heavy flush frame. 4 sash windows to the ground storey, all with a single vertical glazing bar in plain reveals with moulded heads below the jetty. 3 gabled dormers with plain bargeboards and hanging finials have single bar 2-light casement windows. Entrance door with 2 leaves in a plain wood surround with a rectangular fanlight flanked by 2 shaped brackets below the jetty. A small timber-framed wing at the rear and a larger extension of 1935. INTERIOR: modernised brick-lined cellar. Frame in 4 bays. Most internal timbers are covered; chamfered main beams only are exposed on the ground storey. The bay at the south end is an open carriage entrance with an exposed ceiling: chamfered main beam with triangle stops, joists set flat, widely spaced.
Listing NGR: TL8526063919
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466864
- 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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