79, GUILDHALL STREET
79, GUILDHALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1363716
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 79, GUILDHALL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 79, GUILDHALL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1363716
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 79, GUILDHALL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 79, 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:
- 79, 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 85248 64026
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW GUILDHALL STREET 639-1/14/402 (West side) 07/08/52 No.79
GV II*
House, now offices and flats. C18 exterior with partly C12 core. Timber-framed above a plinth of stone blocks; roughcast. Slate roof with a moulded wood eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellar; 2 wings at rear. 5 window range: 12-pane to the 1st storey and without glazing bars on the ground storey, all in heavy flush cased frames. A central 6-panel door has a semicircular fanlight with radial glazing bars and a doorcase with panelled pilasters and cornice. INTERIOR: cellar below the northern half of the front with C18/C19 brick walls almost entirely to the south and east, on the west mixed with areas of flint rubble. The north wall is of flint rubble with various recesses. C15/C16 bridging beam to ceiling, probably intended to rest on supporting piers; C18/C19 joists. Running through the ground storey from north to south is a thick wall faced with ashlar blocks along its western face. This contains a Norman doorway, which is at the back of the present cross-entry, with a roll-moulded arch; the nook shafts have capitals with volutes. At the south end of the wall is another narrow doorway with a chamfered pointed arch, probably dating from the late C12. A low round-headed window with a chamfered arch, boarded over, is half way along the same wall. This wall appears to extend for the whole length of the building and may have a return wall on the north between No.79 and No.80 (qv). 2 pairs of tall timber columns with matching 'Norman' capitals are spaced along the present cross-entry, one pair immediately inside the entrance door. A C17 rear wing on the south has a heavy main beam with large chamfer and lambstongue stop with quirk and has been extended into a later bay. A rear wing on the north now forms part of the adjoining premises and has no exposed original features; between the 2 wings is a flat-roofed extension containing a stair with ramped handrail but with boarding covering the balusters.
Listing NGR: TL8524864026
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466875
- 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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