62 AND 63, GUILDHALL STREET
62 AND 63, GUILDHALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363742
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 62 AND 63, GUILDHALL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 62 AND 63, GUILDHALL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363742
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 62 AND 63, GUILDHALL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 62 AND 63, 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:
- 62 AND 63, 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 85276 63854
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW GUILDHALL STREET 639-1/15/387 (West side) 12/07/72 Nos.62 AND 63
GV II
House, now divided into 2. Late C17/early C18 front range, older rear to No.63. Timber-framed and rendered; plaintiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellar and attic. Each half of the house has one window to each storey: No.62 has a sash to the upper storey with marginal glazing in a flush cased frame and a former 8-pane C19 shop window to the ground storey with a wood surround with plain pilasters and cornice. A gabled dormer has shaped bargeboards, a hanging finial and a 2-light single bar casement window. Recessed 6-panel door in a heavy wood doorcase with panelled reveals, plain pilasters and flat cornice hood, similar to that above the former shop window. No.63 has a 16-pane sash to the 1st storey and a longer 12-pane sash to the ground storey, both in flush cased frames. Entrance door on the north end, in a flat-roofed single storey section of No.64 (qv) adjoining, has a plain rendered surround and a rectangular fanlight. INTERIOR: No.62: brick arched cellar below rear has walling of rendered flint along the north wall and alcoves. The front ground storey room has a boxed ceiling beam and corner fireplace. A later rear wing has softwood beams and there is a 2-storey lean-to addition. Attic with alate side purlin roof without a ridge-piece. No.63 also has a cellar below the rear wing: walls of flint with thick old render, renewed ceiling. No features exposed in front range. The entrance door leads into a narrow passage with the original side wall on the left replaced by a series of brick arches. 2-bay C15 rear wing, with timbers exposed in walls and ceiling, has an original doorway on the north side with renewed arched spandrels. The ground storey ceiling is inserted, some joists being reused rafters. Collared rafters to the roof above, but no smoke-blackening. A narrow timber-framed section to the north of the rear wing links the house with the back range of No.64 (qv).
Listing NGR: TL8527663854
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466860
- 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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