38, ABBEYGATE STREET
38, ABBEYGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328873
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 38, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 38, ABBEYGATE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328873
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 38, ABBEYGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 38, 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:
- 38, 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 85441 64202
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/143 (South side) 12/07/72 No.38
GV II
Shop, formerly with living accommodation above. Early C19 above a C16 cellar. Timber-framed and rendered; slate roof with a paired modillion eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars. 3 window range: small-paned sashes in cased frames with ornate wooden architraves and small cornices. A C20 shop front to the ground storey. INTERIOR: cellar in 2 halves, divided by a partition wall. The eastern half, in 2 bays, has a C16 supporting timber framework corbelled out from the walls, with long arched braces remaining to one tie-beam and plain, flat joists. The western half of the cellar has partially collapsed, but seems to extend below the street.
Listing NGR: TL8544164202
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466599
- 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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