RIDLEYS

RIDLEYS, 35 AND 36, ABBEYGATE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1328871
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: RIDLEYS
Statutory Address:: RIDLEYS, 35 AND 36, ABBEYGATE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1328871
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: RIDLEYS
Statutory Address 1:: RIDLEYS, 35 AND 36, ABBEYGATE STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: RIDLEYS, 35 AND 36, ABBEYGATE STREET

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County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Bury St. Edmunds
National Grid Reference:: TL 85462 64204

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/141 (South side) 07/08/52 Nos.35 AND 36 Ridleys

GV II*

Shop with offices above, formerly 2 shops with living accommodation. c1700. Red brick laid in Flemish Bond with blue headers; plaintiled roofs, modillion eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellars; a front range and 2 rear wings, one with a long frontage along Angel Lane. On the Abbeygate Street frontage, 4 small-paned sash windows to the upper storey and one Edwardian French door, with diminished side-lights to the glazing, which opens onto a balcony with Edwardian wrought-iron railings. 3 flat-headed dormers with lead roofs and cheeks have 2-light casement windows. The ground storey has 2 very fine early C19 shop fronts, now linked. The former No.35 has 2 square small-paned windows and a central entrance; a continuous dentil cornice above and panelled fascia boards. The former No.36 has a small-paned bow window and a side entrance with steps and a curved wrought-iron rail. The Angel Lane frontage, which closely resembles the facade of No.25 Abbeygate Street (qv) which faces onto Lower Baxter Street, has 8 original window openings with gauged heads to the upper storey, 2 blocked, 2 with late C19 small-paned sash windows in cased frames, 4 with cross windows. One flat-headed dormer with lead roof and cheeks. The ground storey has 4 sash windows, one blocked, 2 blocked doorways, and 2 doors, one with 6 raised fielded panels and a rectangular fanlight above. INTERIOR: cellars run below the front range and both rear wings. Some C19 brick walls have been introduced, but the original walling is in a mixture of rubble flint with Tudor brick and some re-used stone blocks. Massive C16 ceiling-beams, chamfered and stopped; modern replaced joists. The western front bay has a dragon beam which appears to be in situ, running out to the former south-west corner, but no part of a corresponding structure remains above. On the ground storey the brickwork of an angle fireplace relating to the Angel Lane range has been exposed, and on the upper storey several ceiling-beams are visible. Roofs throughout of a late clasped purlin type, without principals or a ridge-piece and with some re-used components. The attics were once used as dormitories for the shop assistants and there are the remains of the C17 and C18 balusters of several former stairs.

HISTORY: The Ridley family have been invloved with this site for the last 400 years.

Listing NGR: TL8546264204

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Legacy System number:: 466597
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.