Angel Corner
ANGEL CORNER, 8, ANGEL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141157
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Angel Corner
- Statutory Address:
- ANGEL CORNER, 8, ANGEL HILL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1141157
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Angel Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANGEL CORNER, 8, ANGEL HILL
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:
- ANGEL CORNER, 8, ANGEL HILL
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 85460 64307
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW ANGEL HILL 639-1/14/165 (North side) 12/07/72 No.8 Angel Corner
GV II
House, now used as part of the Borough Offices. c1700; dated 1702 on a rainwater head. Refronted in the mid-C19. Red brick; fully hipped plaintiled roof with 2 hipped gables to the rear (north). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; cellar. The C19 facade has a parapet and a moulded brick dentil cornice. 5 window range: sashes, with quartering glazing-bars to each sash, in deep reveals with flat gauged brick arches and raised keystones. 2 canted bays to the ground storey, each with 3 small-paned sash windows. Central doorway up a flight of stone steps; 6-panel door with a plain fanlight in a heavy pilastered stone surround with cornice. The side and rear walls have a raised brick band and brickwork laid in Flemish Bond. 3 segmental-headed dormers to the south front and one on the east side, all with small-paned sash windows. A brick parapet and moulded architrave to the rear wall and 4 windows to each storey: all sashes, 3 narrow 8-pane and one wider 12-pane, all in flush cased frames; one blocked on the ground storey. A half-glazed door with a triangular pediment over. Adjoining the main house on the west is an early C19 one-and-a-half storey range in red brick with old plaintiles to the half-hipped mansard roof. The rear of this range has 2 18-pane sash windows to the ground storey in flush cased frames, both blocked, and large 20-pane sash windows to the 2 flat-headed dormers. There is a later link with the north end of the adjacent stable block (qv). INTERIOR: cellar with a vaulted section lined with stone blocks. Entrance hall with limestone flags. Moulded plaster cornices to the hall and both principal ground-storey rooms; full-height panelling with raised moulded surrounds to flush panels in the hall and the room to the east of it. A fine original dog-leg stair, with an additional flight at the half-landing, has closed strings, barley-sugar-twist balusters, moulded newel-posts and handrail and bolection-moulded dadoes. All the original doors are 6-panel, with raised fielded panels.
Listing NGR: TL8546064307
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466626
- 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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