Harpers Music Room
23, ABBEYGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328863
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Harpers Music Room
- Statutory Address:
- 23, ABBEYGATE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328863
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Harpers Music Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- HARPERS MUSIC ROOM, 7, LOWER BAXTER 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:
- 23, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- HARPERS MUSIC ROOM, 7, LOWER BAXTER 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 85440 64224
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET
639-1/14/133 (North side)
12/07/72 No.23
(Formerly Listed as:
ABBEYGATE STREET
No.23)
(Formerly Listed as:
ABBEYGATE STREET
No.24)
GV II
Includes: No.7 Harpers Music Room LOWER BAXTER STREET.
Formerly 2 houses with shops, now one, with a shop on the
ground storey and offices above. Early C16, with mid-C19
alterations. Timber-framed, with exposed framing along Lower
Baxter Street and a white brick front with a parapet and
quadrant corner to Abbeygate Street; plaintiled roofs, moulded
cornice to parapet.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys to Abbeygate Street frontage, 2 storeys
and attics to remainder. 3 windows to each of the upper
storeys on the front, all small-paned sashes in deep reveals
with stucco architraves. The centre, with one window, breaks
forward slightly and there is a plain flat pilaster at each
end. The shop front has a small dentil cornice to the wooden
fascia and the windows are divided by 3 flat wooden pilasters
with carved Ionic capitals. The Lower Baxter Street frontage
is in 4 bays, 3 with exposed framing to the upper storey above
a jetty supported by a moulded and castellated bressumer;
render below. 3 inserted small-paned sash windows to the upper
storey and 3 blocked C16 mullioned windows, one of 3 lights;
the others with similar mullions are smaller, fitted into
larger openings. Peg-holes and replacement studding indicate
that this frontage originally had windows all along the upper
storey.
INTERIOR: one ground-floor bay has the massive plain joists
which form the jetty exposed in the ceiling, and one small
section of the upper storey, accessible from the shop, has
some main components visible, including a tie-beam with a
small solid bracket. The remainder of the upper storey is
approached from No.7 Lower Baxter Street. The narrow range to
Abbeygate Street has been raised; the principal upper room has
a small C19 foliated plaster cornice, but no earlier features
are exposed anywhere.
In the Lower Baxter Street range the supporting bracket of a
boxed-in collar-purlin indicates that there was a crown-post roof.
Listing NGR: TL8544064224
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466589
- 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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