37, ABBEYGATE STREET
37, ABBEYGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328872
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 37, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 37, ABBEYGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328872
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 37, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37, 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:
- 37, 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 85451 64192
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/142 (South side) 07/08/52 No.37 (Formerly Listed as: ANGEL LANE (West side) Nos.7 AND 8) (Formerly Listed as: ABBEYGATE STREET No.37)
GV II
Shop, formerly with living accommodation. Late C15/early C16 with C19 and C20 alterations. Timber-framed, with comb pargeting to C20 render; slates to front roof, tiles to rear range. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar to front range, 2 storeys and cellar to rear; on a corner site. Early C19 front to Abbeygate Street with a moulded eaves cornice. On the top storey, 2 small-paned sash windows with segmental heads and keystones; on the first storey 2 similar windows with shouldered stuccoed architraves; one window on each storey is on the curve of the corner. The ground storey of the front range was originally jettied along the front and side, and the joist ends are exposed above the C20 shop fascia. The Angel Lane frontage is in 3 sections with slightly differing roof-lines, the 2 outer jettied, the central part with a flush front. On the upper storey a casement window in each of the jettied sections and 2 sash windows with a single vertical bar to lights in the centre. On the ground storey, 2 doors and one small-paned sash window; a late C20 small-paned canted bay window below the jetty at the north end. INTERIOR: cellar modernised, and used for storage of stock. Some timbering is exposed along its east wall, and during alterations in 1989 some medieval fragments were exposed, including brick vaulting and a limestone doorway near the Abbeygate Street frontage. From the top of the cellar steps part of the ground storey ceiling of the south jettied section can be seen, with plain heavy flat joists. The roof over this part is a C20 replacement. Over the central section there are the remains of a clasped purlin roof, and over the north jetty a crown-post roof, with a plain square crown-post braced only to the collar-purlin. No other features uncovered inside. The range fronting on Abbeygate Street was raised in the C19.
Listing NGR: TL8545164192
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466598
- 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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