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Latitude: 52.2411 / 52°14'27"N
Longitude: 0.7139 / 0°42'49"E
OS Eastings: 585391
OS Northings: 263789
OS Grid: TL853637
Mapcode National: GBR QF0.FBB
Mapcode Global: VHKD4.BX8W
Plus Code: 9F426PR7+CH
Entry Name: Batt House
Listing Date: 12 July 1972
Last Amended: 30 October 1997
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1142325
English Heritage Legacy ID: 467689
ID on this website: 101142325
Location: Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk, IP33
County: Suffolk
District: West Suffolk
Civil Parish: Bury St Edmunds
Built-Up Area: Bury St Edmunds
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Bury St Edmunds St Mary
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: House
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW WESTGATE STREET
639-1/15/678 (North side)
12/07/72 No.56
Batt House
(Formerly Listed as:
WESTGATE STREET
(North side)
No.56
Bernard Batt House)
GV II
House; now used as the YMCA and divided into 14 bedsits. Early
and later C19 with a fragmentary earlier core. White brick
front, red brick sides and rear; slate roof with a moulded
wood cornice.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; 2 parallel ranges, both C19
but of different date, to the main building; an extension in
matching style on the east side and a small rendered
single-storey section on the west with a tiled and hipped
roof. 3 window range to the main front, all sashes in plain
reveals with flat gauged arches, 16-pane to the ground and 1st
storeys and 8-pane to the 2nd storey. The east extension has a
single narrow sash window to each storey.
The 6-panel door, with the top 2 panels glazed, is within the
west extension: wood doorcase with pilasters and a dentil
cornice.
INTERIOR: extensive cellars, the rear with flint and stone
walling and a brick vaulted ceiling. Only 2 main beams of the
timber frame exposed. An early C19 winder stair which rises to
the top storey has stick balusters and a wreathed handrail.
Listing NGR: TL8539163789
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