12 AND 13, ABBEYGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1021956
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:: 12 AND 13, ABBEYGATE
Statutory Address:: 12 AND 13, ABBEYGATE

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Date:: 2004-04-22
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1021956
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:: 12 AND 13, ABBEYGATE
Statutory Address 1:: 12 AND 13, ABBEYGATE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 12 AND 13, ABBEYGATE

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 85375 64208

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/124 (North side) 12/07/72 Nos.12 AND 13

GV II

Shop with 2 flats above. Mid C19. White brick; slate roof with parapet and moulded brick cornice. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and cellar. 4 window range, sashes with clear glass in plain deep reveals with gauged brick segmental arches, moulded stone keystones and sills on stub brackets. In the centre of the first storey a moulded console bracket carries a stone pestle and mortar, indicating that this was for many years a chemist's shop. A dentil frieze and cornice to the shop front. At the east end, a recessed door with ornate panels in Jacobean style and a semicircular roll-moulded surround gives access to the upper storeys. INTERIOR: the cellar is mainly lined in C19 brick with reused timber beams in the ceiling, but the party wall on the east is principally of limestone blocks, laid in random fashion.

Listing NGR: TL8537564208

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Legacy System number:: 466580
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.