31 AND 32, ABBEYGATE STREET
31 AND 32, ABBEYGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1328869
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 31 AND 32, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 31 AND 32, ABBEYGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1328869
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 31 AND 32, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 31 AND 32, 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:
- 31 AND 32, 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 85490 64216
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/139 (South side) 07/08/52 Nos.31 AND 32 (Formerly Listed as: ABBEYGATE STREET Nos.31, 32 AND 32A)
GV II*
2 shops with offices and storage above. C18 with earlier cellars; front thought to have been added in 1834. Timber-framed and roughcast; a hipped slate roof with paired modillions to the wide eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars; on a corner site. 5 window range facing Abbeygate Street, small-paned sashes in flush cased frames, apart from 3 on the first storey which have no glazing bars. 2 window range on the Angel Hill frontage, also small-paned sashes in flush cased frames. The ground storey has a rich Greek Ionic colonnade with wooden unfluted columns; the spaces between are infilled with C20 plate glass shop windows. INTERIOR: the cellar of No.31 is deep and apparently medieval, lined with a mixture of flint rubble, old brick, and small stone blocks. Its ceiling is supported by a heavy chamfered main beam with lodged joists, some re-used. A low vaulted tunnel, partly lined with old brick and numerous old tiles, extends below Abbeygate Street. On the Angel Hill frontage the splayed reveals of a window, now blocked, but formerly at ground level. Documentary sources indicate that this cellar was used as a tavern up to the early C19; in 1833 the tenant, Thomas Bridgman, was also the landlord of the Angel Inn. The cellar of No.32 has the remains of a stone doorway leading into No.31. No exposed features of interest to rest of interior.
Listing NGR: TL8549064216
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466595
- 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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