BRIDGE HOUSE

BRIDGE HOUSE, 34, BRIDGE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1365335
Date first listed:: 09-May-1949
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE HOUSE, 34, BRIDGE STREET

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Date:: 2002-07-04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1365335
Date first listed:: 09-May-1949
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE HOUSE, 34, BRIDGE STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BRIDGE HOUSE, 34, BRIDGE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Bungay
National Park:: THE BROADS
National Grid Reference:: TM3375689907

Details

1. 924 TM 3389 1/13 9.5.49

BRIDGE STREET (East Side) No 34 (Bridge House)

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2. C18 block to road frontage dated 1776. Late Cl6 with later modifications at rear. Occupied by Gregory Clarke in 1688 who was rebuilding it at the time of the great fire from which it was saved by the watchman. West portion 2 high storeys with 2 blank-window panels at each floor, with flat arches, and stone cills. Red brick. Cornice, below parapet with stone cope. Pantiles. Entrance front on return south. 3 windows, sash, with glazing bars, 6-panel door with arched patterned radial-bar fanlight, in case with panelled reveals, fluted Doric columns, triglyphs and dentil pediment. Interior: panelled room with enriched cornice, converted to Veterinary Surgeons dispensary, In room above, marble mantel attributed to John Adam with Ionic pilasters tapering downwards, Earlier portion at rear, 2 storey and attic, 3 dormers with segmental pediments. Brick, rendered. Tiles. 5 flush frame sash windows with glazing bars, and canted oriel. 4-panel central door in wood case with consoles. Second door, right, with 6 flush panels and pedimented hood. Chateaubriand resided here in 1795 when the house was occupied by Rev J Clement Ives.

Nos 2, 4, 6A, 12 to 20 (even), 24 to 34 (even) 40 to 44 (even), 48 and 50 form a group.

Listing NGR: TM3375689907

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Legacy System number:: 409877
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.