71, GUILDHALL STREET
71, GUILDHALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363707
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 71, GUILDHALL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 71, GUILDHALL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363707
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 71, GUILDHALL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 71, 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:
- 71, 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 85257 63951
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW GUILDHALL STREET 639-1/15/393 (West side) 07/08/52 No.71
GV II
House. Early C19. White brick; slate roof with a paired wood modillion eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars. 5 window range, arranged 2:1:2 with the centre breaking forward slightly. Moulded stone string courses run between the storeys and the plinth is topped by a stone moulding. The 1st and 2nd storey windows are all 12-pane sashes and the 2nd storey are 6-pane sashes, all in plain reveals with projecting stone sills and flat gauged arches. One 1st-storey window is blank. The central door, up 2 stone steps, has 6 sunk panels with ornate applied mouldings. The wood Doric doorcase has plain reveals, fluted pilasters and a triglyph frieze and cornice. A high white brick wall with 4 plain pilasters spaced along it and a plain stone coping links No.71 on the south to No.70 (qv). Between the centre pilasters is a plain boarded door in plain reveals with a flat gauged arch. At the rear are two 2-storey extensions, both with hipped roofs: on the south in white brick and slates, the other, possibly originally an outbuilding, with weatherboarding and C20 concrete tiles. The back wall of the main range is in red brick with a projecting stair wing. INTERIOR: extensive cellars with C18 timber ceilings, many of the timbers reused, and brick walling with arched recesses. Mainly early C19 features inside with some early C20 alterations to the layout: 6-panel doors with sunk panels; panelled and moulded internal window shutters; moulded cornices in various styles, egg-and-dart, Greek key and paterae. One upper fireplace has an eared architrave and 3 upper rooms have raised 'duck's nest' grates. A winder stair which rises to the attic storey has stick balusters, open bracketed strings and moulded handrails.
Listing NGR: TL8525763951
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466866
- 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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