72, GUILDHALL STREET
72, GUILDHALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363708
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 72, GUILDHALL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 72, GUILDHALL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363708
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 72, GUILDHALL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 72, 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:
- 72, 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 63962
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW GUILDHALL STREET 639-1/15/394 (West side) 07/08/52 No.72 (Formerly Listed as: GUILDHALL STREET (West side) Nos.72 AND 73)
GV II
House. C18 front, early C17 and early C19 rear. Timber-framed and rendered with raised roughcast panels; plaintiled mansard roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellar. 2 window range: 12-pane sashes in flush cased frames to both storeys. 2 flat-headed lead covered dormers have 6-pane sash windows. A 6-panel door with the top 2 panels glazed, up steps, has a wood doorcase with plain reveals, panelled pilasters and pediment. An internal chimney-stack has a plain square red brick shaft with chimney-pots. A long rear range in 2 phases of building. INTERIOR: cellar below whole of front range: walling with some old flint and render, but mainly C19 brick with various niches inserted in 2 stages. Timber ceiling, part C18, part with reused earlier joists. C18 front range in 2 bays with a C20 division into 2 rooms. All earlier partitions removed, but the present entry, formerly into a narrow early C19 corridor with a semicircular-headed rear archway, may well be in the original position. Fireplace with a mid-C18 eared wood surround. An early C19 stair has stick balusters, closed strings, rounded newel posts and a curved handrail. A C17 2-storey rear wing in 2 bays has the main components and some studding exposed on the upper storey; roofs covered. Extending from this wing an early C19 range in flint and brick with a mansard roof, said to have been used initially as a corn store.
Listing NGR: TL8525763962
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466867
- 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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