25, ABBEYGATE STREET, 6, LOWER BAXTER STREET
25, ABBEYGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328864
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 25, ABBEYGATE STREET, 6, LOWER BAXTER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 25, ABBEYGATE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328864
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 25, ABBEYGATE STREET, 6, LOWER BAXTER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 25, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 6, 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:
- 25, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 6, 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 85454 64227
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET
639-1/14/134 (North side)
07/08/52 No.25
GV II
Includes: No.6 LOWER BAXTER STREET.
Shop on the ground storey, with restaurant above and offices
in the attics; formerly house and shop. The upper storeys also
link with those of No.26 (qv) adjoining on the east. Late
C17/early C18 with C19 shop fronts. Red brick, laid in Flemish
Bond with blue headers; fully hipped plaintiled roof with a
very wide modillion eaves cornice; gable end to Abbeygate
Street.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and cellars; on a corner site.
5-window range to Lower Baxter Street, the window at the north
end a C20 insertion; 2 windows to each gable end, all
small-paned sashes in flush cased frames with gauged brickwork
to heads. 4 hipped dormers with wood cornices to Lower Baxter
Street and one in each gable. A slightly recessed panel of
brickwork to the rounded corner and a plain brick band between
the ground and first storeys. Edwardian shop front with a
corner entry and heavy moulded fascia: the shop windows are
each divided into 2 lights by slender cast-iron columns, and
similar end columns have moulded caps and bases and ornate
spandrels. A matching surround to the recessed glazed shop
door.
The ground storey of the Lower Baxter Street frontage has 5
windows without glazing bars in original openings, one 3-light
window with diminished side-lights, and a 3-panel door with
rectangular fanlight, reeded pilasters and patterned cornice.
A former stair wing at the north-east corner, later part of
No.26, was faced in red brick, with a modillion cornice to
match No.25, during extensive restoration c1970.
INTERIOR: all original partitions removed on ground and first
storey; roof timbers renewed. In the former stair wing a late
C17 stair with barley-sugar twist balusters has an additional
C20 flight, and all treads and handrails have been renewed.
The cellar is extensive and runs below the whole building. It
has renewed C20 timber ceilings, but the walling, in a mixture
of flint and stone blocks with shallow retaining arches of old
brick, may be late medieval.
Listing NGR: TL8545464234
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466590
- 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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