Tower House
TOWER HOUSE, 1 AND 2, CROWN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076932
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Tower House
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER HOUSE, 1 AND 2, CROWN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076932
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Tower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER HOUSE, 1 AND 2, CROWN 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:
- TOWER HOUSE, 1 AND 2, CROWN 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 85571 64063
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SE CROWN STREET 639-1/8/296 (East side) 12/07/72 Nos.1 AND 2 Tower House
GV II
Former Penny Bank, now offices. Dated 1846 on the north front. Possibly by LN Cottingham (1787-1847). In red brick with purple brick diapering and stone dressings; roofs with shaped tiles and elaborately patterned moulded brick shafted chimneys. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. 4 window range on the West front and 5 window range on the North front facing the Norman Tower. The windows are stone dressed, 2- 3- and 4-light, double banked, traceried. There is a 7-light window on the ground storey of the North front and a central chimney-stack, 2 gables, and a doorway with a pitched canopy and elaborately carved stone arch carried on ogee brackets and short pillars. The North end of the East front has a gable with heavy moulded brick coping, a stone oriel window on the 1st storey and 2 narrow traceried windows below. The East front has a low parapet with a moulded tile coping. A 'Tudor' arched door with carved spandrels is set in a rectangular, stone dressed opening. A stone band runs between storeys and there is a moulded stone capped plinth. The East front adjoins Tower Cottages which is in the same style and is described under Abbey Precincts. INTERIOR: extensive cellars, part brick-lined, part flint; heavy re-used main beams to the ceilings. Some surviving original features inside, including the ground storey ceilings which have plaster cornices with Tudor flower ornament. Newel stair with a round newel post moulded on the top storey. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 150).
Listing NGR: TL8557164063
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466768
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 150
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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