1 AND 1A, HATTER STREET, 44A, ABBEYGATE STREET

1 AND 1A, HATTER STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1328874
Date first listed:
30-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:
1 AND 1A, HATTER STREET, 44A, ABBEYGATE STREET
Statutory Address:
1 AND 1A, HATTER STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1328874
Date first listed:
30-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:
1 AND 1A, HATTER STREET, 44A, ABBEYGATE STREET
Statutory Address 1:
1 AND 1A, HATTER STREET
Statutory Address 2:
44A, ABBEYGATE STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
1 AND 1A, HATTER STREET
Statutory Address:
44A, 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 85401 64193

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET
639-1/14/144 (South side)
12/07/72 No.44A
(Formerly Listed as:
HATTER STREET
(East side)
Nos.1 AND 1A)

GV II

Includes: Nos.1 AND 1A HATTER STREET.
Offices. Late 1880s. In red brick with a parapet and moulded
brick modillion cornice. In ornate Renaissance style.
EXTERIOR: part 3-storeys, but mainly 2 storeys and basement;
on a corner site with a long frontage at Nos 1 & 1A Hatter
Street, which was originally the principal front. 3 window
range to Abbeygate Street and 10 window range to Hatter
Street, all sashes without glazing-bars. The top storey
windows are semicircular headed with moulded brick arches and
keystones and a moulded brick band at impost level. The 4
southern 1st storey windows on the Hatter Street frontage are
shorter than the rest with a row of windows below them. All
the ground-storey windows have moulded brick shouldered
architraves and sills. A broad band runs below the upper
windows with a moulded brick cornice and shaped aprons beneath
each of the windows. A high moulded brick plinth runs at sill
level: on the Abbeygate Street frontage 2 high basement
openings rise above the sill level with segmental-arched brick
heads and pierced cast-iron grilles. One ground storey window
has been made into a doorway. The original doorway, with
fanlight, is recessed in a semicircular brick arched opening
on the Hatter Street frontage.

Listing NGR: TL8540164193

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
466600
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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