18, ABBEYGATE STREET
18, ABBEYGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328859
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 18, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 18, ABBEYGATE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328859
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 18, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18, 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:
- 18, 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 85408 64224
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/129 (North side) 12/07/72 No.18
GV II
Shop, formerly a house and shop, probably originally the cross wing of a house with a hall range adjoining. Early C16 core, early C19 front. Timber-framed and rendered; slate roof with a wooden eaves cornice and a plaster frieze with acanthus-leaf decoration. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 2 window range: on the 2nd storey, sashes with heavy glazing-bars, on the first storey, sashes with clear glass, all in cased frames. C20 shop front. INTERIOR: cellar small, brick and flint lined with some blocks of reused stone. Original part of building in 2 bays, set sideways-on to the street and jettied at first-floor level, now underbuilt. Where visible the studs are wide and closely set. There was formerly a stud partition between the 2 bays. The ground storey is high, with only the main ceiling beams and the joist ends of the jetty exposed. In the rear wall is a long shutter-slide and the housings for a 5-light diamond-mullioned window. Embedded near the front of the west wall is round Jacobean wooden column, possibly relating to a C17 porch, but probably not in situ. On the 1st storey the joists are almost all replacements. The top storey is a C19 addition with a roof of shallow pitch. A rear range is in random brick and flint. All the features exposed during restoration in the early 1990s have been covered over again.
Listing NGR: TL8540864224
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466585
- 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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