Ruins of Abbey Dovecote and Part of Wall
RUINS OF ABBEY DOVECOTE AND PART OF WALL, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1375544
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Abbey Dovecote and Part of Wall
- Statutory Address:
- RUINS OF ABBEY DOVECOTE AND PART OF WALL, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1375544
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Abbey Dovecote and Part of Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUINS OF ABBEY DOVECOTE AND PART OF WALL, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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:
- RUINS OF ABBEY DOVECOTE AND PART OF WALL, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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:
- TL8576964275
Details
TL8564SE
639-1/8/95
12/07/72
BURY ST EDMUNDS
ABBEY PRECINCTS
Ruins of Abbey Dovecote and part of wall
(Formerly Listed as: Abbey Dovecote)
GV
I
Remains of Abbey dovecote with an associated short stretch of
wall. C12 with later alterations. In coursed flint with stone
quoins and dressings.
Originally 2-storey, now roofless; hexagonal. On the ground
storey, the remains of a narrow arched doorway and a small
rectangular window. On the upper storey, a blocked window with
rounded head and a 2-light mullion-and-transom window with
cusping to lights and a rectangular hood-mould are both later
introductions. The wall has the remains of a doorway with
stone surround and 2 wide later openings and was originally
part of a wing of rooms flanking the garden.
INTERIOR: the thickness of the walling is reduced above the
ground storey, leaving a shelf which supported the timbers of
the upper floor. The upper walls have the broken remains of
nesting-boxes.
Scheduled Ancient Monument.
(BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 140).
Listing NGR: TL8576964275
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466445
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 140
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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