45, ABBEYGATE STREET, 28, HATTER STREET

28, HATTER STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1328875
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:
45, ABBEYGATE STREET, 28, HATTER STREET
Statutory Address:
28, HATTER STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1328875
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:
45, ABBEYGATE STREET, 28, HATTER STREET
Statutory Address 1:
28, HATTER STREET
Statutory Address 2:
45, 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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
28, HATTER STREET
Statutory Address:
45, 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 85385 64190

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET
639-1/14/145 (South side)
12/07/72 No.45

GV II

Includes: No.28 HATTER STREET.
2 shops, one on the ground storey, the other on the first
storey approached from No.28 Hatter Street. Late C16/early C17
core, refronted in the C18.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar to the one-bay Abbeygate Street
frontage, In 2 separate ranges, both timber-framed and
rendered with C20 double Roman tiled roof. 2 storeys and attic
to the 3-bay Hatter Street front. A single 12-pane sash window
in a flush cased frame to the front and another to the gable
end of the Abbeygate Street range. The shop front overlaps
partly with the ground storey of No.46 and extends round a
quadrant corner into Hatter Street, formerly with a corner
entrance, now blocked. It has a moulded fascia supported by
console brackets, windows divided by plain vertical bars, and
panelled stall-boards. A recessed entrance door to Abbeygate
Street. The Hatter Street range has two 12-pane sash windows
in flush cased frames to the upper storey and 2 small-paned
tripartite sashes with diminished side-lights to the ground
storey. A single flat-headed lead-covered dormer with a 6-pane
sash window. The recessed entrance door at the south-end is
approached up 3 stone steps: semicircular-arched doorway with
panelled reveals, Edwardian 4-panelled door, unusual star form
to the radiating glazing-bars of the fanlight.
INTERIOR: the cellar wall along the Abbeygate Street frontage
has a base of stone blocks with some coursed flint above, old
render, and renewed ceiling beams. No other original features
are exposed.



Listing NGR: TL8538564190

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
466601
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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