59, ABBEYGATE STREET
59, ABBEYGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141147
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 59, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 59, ABBEYGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141147
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 59, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 59, 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:
- 59, 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 85282 64165
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/155 (South side) 11/02/87 No.59
GV II
Offices. 1891, by JS Corder of Ipswich. Originally built for the Alliance Insurance Co. Limited. C20 red sandstone to ground floor, red brick above, with dressings in terracotta and rubbed brick. Neo Jacobethan with some Artisan Mannerist and some Late-Gothic details. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5 bays, a-b-a-b-a bay system, with 2 gables, canted bows. Ground floor has surviving bank windows in cut stone surrounds, tripartite casements with doubled upper lights. One extra single-light casement at west, one 4-centred door with upper lights at east. Central segmental-arched doorcase with Doric pilasters, bracketed pediment with scrolls, cornice supported on volutes. Finely detailed frieze with strapwork, fruit and foliage, and coats of arms below window bases. Both upper floors have two 3-sided canted bows with central cross windows, single side lights, upper lights under 4-centred arches, central mullion of first floor bows only removed. Single central cross window and single outer casements. First floor dentil cornice plat-band with flat foliage panels above, second floor egg-and-dart moulding, projecting cornice with semi-octagonal projections framing Dutch gables with scrolled pedimented centrepieces with coats of arms. Balustrade in between Dutch gables repeated unusually above west-facing gable on party wall with adjacent property. Plaintiled roofs; plain gable at rear. This building has an overall high quality of details. INTERIOR: not inspected. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 149).
Listing NGR: TL8528264165
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466617
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 149
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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