14, ABBEYGATE STREET, 15, HIGH BAXTER STREET
14, ABBEYGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1021957
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 14, ABBEYGATE STREET, 15, HIGH BAXTER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 14, ABBEYGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1021957
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 14, ABBEYGATE STREET, 15, HIGH BAXTER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 15, HIGH BAXTER STREET
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:
- 14, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 15, HIGH BAXTER STREET
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 85377 64217
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET
639-1/14/125 (North side)
07/08/52 No.14
GV II
Includes: No.15 HIGH BAXTER STREET.
Shop and offices on a corner site, formerly shop and house
with workshops behind. C16 and C17 with an early C19 front to
Abbeygate Street. Timber-framed, with the timbers exposed in
one bay of the jettied side frontage, the remainder rendered.
Hipped plaintiled roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellar; on a corner site with
a return front to High Baxter Street. The Abbeygate Street
frontage has a plain parapet and quadrant corner. 2 windows to
the upper storey: one small-paned sash in a plain reveal on
the curve of the corner and one 3-light small-paned sash with
diminished side-lights and a wooden blind box. A lead-covered
segmental-headed dormer with a 2-light casement window in the
front slope of the roof. An early C20 shop front with a heavy
fascia and corner entrance door also extends along part of the
side range. This 5-bay range along High Baxter Street is in 3
sections with marked joins in the framing after the 2nd and
3rd bays. At the south end one bay has exposed studding on the
upper storey; in the next 2 bays the joist ends and the
ogee-moulded bressumer are visible; the 2 bays to the north
are unjettied, with a rendered and lined exterior restored in
1990.
There is a variety of windows along the upper storey: 4
small-paned C19 sashes in moulded frames, one single-light and
one 2-light C20 casement window, and on the corner a blocked
4-light original window with moulded mullions and C20
replacement spandrels. On the ground storey three 12-pane sash
windows, one with panelled external shutters, and a 6-panel
door with raised fielded panels, the top 2 glazed. Adjoining
to the north is a further 3-storey range, also completely
restored in 1990. This has a continuous row of fixed casements
on the 1st storey and 3 casement windows on the top storey, 2
of 2 lights, one single light. C20 plaintiles. A small stable
timepiece is attached to the 1st floor of the Northgate Street
frontage: made by W Potts & Sons, Leeds, dated 1900, with
double bracket "frying-pan" dial.
INTERIOR: cellar with walls of flint rubble and re-used stone
blocks has the remains of old render and a timber ceiling.
Along the side range some plain widely-spaced studding and
chamfered joists are exposed, and in the 2 end bays on the
north the main cross-beams and plain unchamfered joists of the
ground storey ceiling are visible. Original roof to part with
clasped purlins, collars and principal rafters exposed.
Listing NGR: TL8537764217
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466581
- 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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