16 AND 16A, ABBEYGATE STREET
16 AND 16A, ABBEYGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1021959
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 16A, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 16 AND 16A, ABBEYGATE STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-04-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/01749/12
- Rights:
- © Mr Geoffrey Harriman. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1021959
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 16A, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16 AND 16A, ABBEYGATE 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:
- 16 AND 16A, ABBEYGATE 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 85396 64224
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/127 (North side) 12/07/72 Nos.16 AND 16A (Formerly Listed as: ABBEYGATE STREET No.16)
GV II
Offices of the Trustee Savings Bank, formerly a house and shop. c1863, designed by William Spanton, photographer, for his own use. No.16A is the Area Office of the TSB, which occupies the upper floors of both No.16 and No.17 (qv). White brick and slates. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys: this is the highest building in the street. Stucco cornice and moulded rusticated quoins. 3 sash windows to the top storey with vertical glazing bars and stucco shouldered architraves. A raised band at sill level. 3 sash windows to the 2nd storey with single vertical glazing bars, shouldered architraves and cornices. The first storey is stuccoed and the 3 sash windows have moulded architraves and segmental pediments on console brackets. The ground storey has a plain C20 shop front. INTERIOR: an original steep winder stair in the north-east corner of No.16, which runs the whole height of the building, has bracketed open strings, slender column balusters, and a wreathed handrail.
Listing NGR: TL8539664224
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466583
- 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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