33 AND 34, ABBEYGATE STREET
33 AND 34, ABBEYGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328870
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 33 AND 34, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 33 AND 34, ABBEYGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328870
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 33 AND 34, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 33 AND 34, 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:
- 33 AND 34, 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 85478 64212
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/140 (South side) 18/12/89 Nos.33 AND 34
GV II
2 shops, each with former living accommodation above. Early C16 front range; possible C15 wing to rear of No.34. Timber-framed and rendered; jettied along front; old plaintiled roof; late C16 inserted brick ridge stack with a plain shaft of Tudor brick. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; cellars. 2 window range: late C19 4-paned sashes to first storey. C20 boarding to parapet; late C19 dormers: No.33 with mid C20 casement windows, No.34 with a late C19 6-paned sash window. A late C19 cornice to the jetty with panelled soffit and ornate console brackets. C20 shop fronts with recessed doorways, the front to No.34 inserted in 1989. Mid C19 4-panelled door and 12 to 16-pane sashes to rear. INTERIOR: cellar below No.33 with stone lining and massive flat, plain joists. The ground storey has exposed studs, a chamfered main beam and plain, flat joists. A rear beam has empty mortices for a former partition and behind it a main post which is arch-braced to a surviving section of mid rail, indicating that an open-sided passage formerly ran along the back of the building. This accounts for the exceptional width of the upper floor, almost 8m. No.34 has its ground storey timbers and ceiling joists hidden by 1989 alterations. The first storey has heavy close studding and tension braces along the west gable wall; evidence for moulded window mullions along the front, and a plain lintel to the open fireplace of the inserted stack. The side purlin roof has unusually wide arched wind braces. The altered rear wing retains the joist ends of a former jetty, some first storey studding and a coupled rafter roof.
Listing NGR: TL8547864212
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466596
- 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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