55, ABBEYGATE STREET
55, ABBEYGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141142
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 55, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 55, ABBEYGATE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141142
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1995
- List Entry Name:
- 55, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 55, 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:
- 55, 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 85322 64181
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/151 (South side) 16/10/95 No.55
GV II
Shop. Mid-C19 with core of c1600. White brick front, timber-framed core; shallow-pitched slate roof with wide eaves and mutule cornice. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and cellar; 2 bays. 3 window range of late C19/early C20 sashes, all without glazing bars, deep reveals, stucco heads and stone sills. C20 shop front with plain fascia and recessed double doors. INTERIOR: the cellar is faced with large irregular stone blocks along the rear wall and has several shallow arched recesses; along the front wall are recesses with old brick arches. The heavy supporting main beam is chamfered and rests on stone blocks. On the ground storey a timber ceiling is exposed: the main cross-beams have been hacked back, plain, flat, closely-spaced joists. No timbers survive above ground storey level. The roof was raised in the C19 when the brick front was added. This building is surrounded on its west side and rear by No.56 (qv), and although it has been a separate property for nearly 2 centuries it appears structurally to have formed part of No.56 initially.
Listing NGR: TL8532264181
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466613
- 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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