RUINS OF ABBEY DOVECOTE AND PART OF WALL

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
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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Official list entry

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

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:: RUINS OF ABBEY DOVECOTE AND PART OF WALL, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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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

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Legacy System number:: 466445
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 140

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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.