7, ATHENAEUM LANE
7, ATHENAEUM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377004
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 7, ATHENAEUM LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 7, ATHENAEUM LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377004
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 7, ATHENAEUM LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7, ATHENAEUM LANE
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:
- 7, ATHENAEUM LANE
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 85524 64118
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SE ATHENAEUM LANE 639-1/8/190 (East side) No.7
GV II
House. C16 core; C18 alterations and a C19 extension. Timber-framed and rendered; C20 plaintiles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar; 5 bays. The building abuts to the north and east on the Athenaeum (qv). The Athenaeum Lane frontage has random fenestration, including a 5-light continuous row of casement windows, part leaded, one 4-pane sliding-sash window to the upper storey, and a 6-pane sash window in a flush cased frame to the ground storey. The south end has a lean-to extension in red brick with an admixture of stone blocks and contains a large paired C20 replacement 18-pane sash window with a flush cased frame. A C20 extension along the east side. INTERIOR: cellar, lined with limestone blocks, is partly tunnelled and partly roofed with very heavy timber joists. In a niche, part of one reused medieval pillar. No timbers are exposed on the ground storey, but in both storeys there is a quantity of square Jacobean panelling. At the south end of the upper storey an open truss with straight tie-beam and solid arched braces suggests that the frame either extended further south or abutted against a former building. A long tension brace in the front wall. At the north end the walls of the upper room have C18 panelling with long upper panels and raised fielded panels to the dado. The roof contains some old timbers but is largely renewed. This seems to be the oldest building on the Athenaeum site.
Listing NGR: TL8552464118
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466652
- 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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