St Andrews Castle
ST ANDREWS CASTLE, ST ANDREWS STREET SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1245008
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- St Andrews Castle
- Statutory Address:
- ST ANDREWS CASTLE, ST ANDREWS STREET SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1245008
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- St Andrews Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST ANDREWS CASTLE, ST ANDREWS STREET SOUTH
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:
- ST ANDREWS CASTLE, ST ANDREWS STREET SOUTH
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 85135 63966
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NW ST ANDREW'S STREET SOUTH 639-1/10/593 (West side) 12/07/72 St Andrew's Castle (Formerly Listed as: ST ANDREW'S STREET SOUTH (West side) Convent of Saint Louis High School)
GV II*
House, later a convent school, now offices. Late C18/early C19. Rubble stone walls and stone dressings; castellated parapets with moulded stone string courses; slate roofs. In Regency Gothick style; irregular plan-form. The east front has a round tower projecting at the south end and a small round turret at the north-east corner. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3 windows: 12-pane sashes with arched glazing bars to the upper lights along the main front and a larger sash window with ornate Gothick tracery in both storeys of the tower. A stuccoed entrance porch with corner turrets and castellations has a moulded pointed-arched doorway. The south front has a projecting centre and a moulded stone string course between the storeys. At the south-east corner is a single-storey flat-roofed castellated and canted bay with 3 sash windows divided by slender columns with a cornice and frieze above. 5 window range to the remainder of the south front, all 12-pane sashes with arched glazing-bars to the upper lights. A later single-storey extension in white brick at the south-west end is in Victorian Gothic style; a 3-light window has coloured glass. INTERIOR: the ground storey retains many original Regency Gothick features. Entrance hall with a plaster groined and vaulted ceiling with bosses, supported by a central pillar with corresponding half-round columns against the walls. Pointed arched doors have architraves with similar wood columns. In some rooms there is a mixture of Classical and Gothick motifs in the plaster decoration. One room has a ribbed plaster ceiling in Jacobean style. The Victorian extension at the south-west corner of the house has heavy panelling inside and was used by the nuns as a chapel. Stair with late C19 details and dado.
Listing NGR: TL8513563966
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467168
- 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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