7, Athenaeum Lane Bury St. Edmunds, England

Listed Building Data

7, Athenaeum Lane has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1377004
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
30 October 1997
Name
7, ATHENAEUM LANE
Location
7, ATHENAEUM LANE
Parish
Bury St. Edmunds
District
St. Edmundsbury
County
Suffolk
Grid Reference
TL 85524 64118
Easting
585524.0000
Northing
264118.0000

Listed Building Description

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

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