15, ABBEYGATE
15, ABBEYGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1021958
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 15, ABBEYGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 15, ABBEYGATE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1021958
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 15, ABBEYGATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15, ABBEYGATE
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:
- 15, 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 85388 64230
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/126 (North side) 12/07/72 No.15
GV II
Shop with storage above, formerly a house and shop, on a corner site. Late C15/early C16 front range, extended c1600. Timber-framed and rendered, jettied along the side frontage, with the joist ends of the jetty exposed; formerly also jettied along front. C20 plaintiled roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; front range in 2 bays and a long return front to High Baxter Street. 3 windows to Abbeygate Street, sashes with a single vertical bar to lights. Parapet and wooden modillion cornice; 2 flat-headed dormers have sash windows with vertical glazing-bars. A late C20 shop front to the ground storey. The later rear range has a row of 8 linked small-paned sash windows and 2 paired sash windows to the upper storey. INTERIOR with little visible. A dragon-beam was uncovered in the front range during restoration c1980, and on the upper storey part of the tie-beam of the central truss is exposed, with a heavy supporting brace. C19 roof trusses to rear range.
Listing NGR: TL8538864230
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466582
- 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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