47 AND 48, ABBEYGATE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328877
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: 47 AND 48, ABBEYGATE STREET
Statutory Address:: 47 AND 48, ABBEYGATE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328877
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: 47 AND 48, ABBEYGATE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 47 AND 48, 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.

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:: 47 AND 48, 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 85375 64186

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/147 (South side) 07/08/52 Nos.47 AND 48

GV II

Shop, formerly 2 shops and houses. Early C19 front with a vestigial core of c1300; each half of the property has a long timber-framed rear range. Timber-framed and rendered; slate roof to front range, C20 tiles to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar to front range, 2 storeys and part attics to rear. A paired bracketed eaves cornice to the front. 4 window range: small-paned sashes with wooden architraves and cornices on enriched console brackets. Late C20 shop fronts. INTERIOR: very fragmentary, with late C13/early C14 features, exposed during restoration in 1988, now removed or concealed again. The timber-framed east boundary wall with No.46 (qv), although hidden, is still substantially complete, with passing braces and scissor braces, and the associated structure of No.47 was initially jettied along the street frontage and contained a shop and a wide passage leading to a hall at the rear. The jetty structure and the bressumer survive. The rear range, difficult to analyze in its present form, has a C15 core and retains a coupled rafter roof (information from P Aitkens). The front was raised in the early C19 and the remodelled 1st storey room has a small ornate plaster cornice with bead and reel decoration. The west party wall to the front range of No.48, now also concealed, is of medieval flint rubble, and the long rear range is in several sections, part C16, part C17, the most northerly with the remains of a plain crown-post roof and the upper framing of an end wall surviving; to the south of this wall, an early C17 range with its upper west wall covered in square Jacobean panelling, including several re-set panels with guilloche or lozenge designs. In the ground storey rear, facing onto the former garden, a wide early C19 bow window has 3 small-paned sashes divided by reeded pilasters above a panelled dado. At the rear, a C16 timber-framed outbuilding, formerly detached, but now linked by a C20 extension to No.47, is in 2 bays with a chimney-stack at the south side. Heavy plain flat joists to the ground storey ceiling; timber lintel to fireplace; roof apparently C18 renewed. This seems to have been used as a kitchen or brewhouse. Thought to have been the capital messuage of John of

Nottingham (d.1437).

Listing NGR: TL8537564186

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Legacy System number:: 466603
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.