Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26435135

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2