22, ABBEYGATE STREET

22, ABBEYGATE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1328862
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:
22, ABBEYGATE STREET
Statutory Address:
22, ABBEYGATE STREET

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1328862
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:
22, ABBEYGATE STREET
Statutory Address 1:
22, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
22, 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 85433 64238

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/132 (North side) 12/07/72 No.22 (Formerly Listed as: ABBEYGATE STREET No.23)

GV II

Former house and shop, now shop and offices. C18, with later rear extensions. Timber-framed and rendered; plaintiled roof with a wooden modillion eaves cornice and 2 flat-headed dormers. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellars. Sash windows to dormers with a single vertical bar, lead roofs and cheeks. 3 large-paned sash windows to upper storey with hood-moulds and stucco aprons. A late C20 double shop front to ground storey which overlaps slightly with No.21 (qv). INTERIOR: contains no visible original features. The cellars, separately occupied as a wine bar, run also below No.23 and former No.24 (qv) and are completely modernised. A large L-shaped extension at the rear has a mid-C20 part approached from Lower Baxter Street. Part of a significant group in Abbeygate Street and included for group value.



Listing NGR: TL8543364238

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
466588
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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