St Margarets House
ST MARGARETS HOUSE, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1375562
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Margarets House
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARGARETS HOUSE, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1375562
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Margarets House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARGARETS HOUSE, 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:
- ST MARGARETS HOUSE, 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:
- TL 85801 63977
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NE ABBEY PRECINCTS 639-1/11/112 St Margaret's House 07/08/52
GV II*
House; now part of the Shire Hall. Early C18, but incorporating C13 Abbey remains and also early C20 extensions. In red brick with lighter rubbed brick dressings; tiled roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars; only the original C18 north front survives. This has a 7 window range, arranged 3:1:3 with the centre breaking forward slightly. All windows with glazing bars in broad flush cased frames with flat gauged arches. The east and west ends have broad giant brick pilasters rising through 3 storeys to a moulded brick dentil cornice. The projecting centre has similar pilasters surmounted by a moulded brick pediment. A brick band runs below the top storey windows. Central doorway with a stone surround and a pediment on enriched console brackets. A large moulded brick chimney-stack. On the east, a timber-framed and plastered 2-and-a-half storey C18 wing with a slate mansard roof. 5 window range: sashes with narrow glazing bars in flush cased frames; 3 dormers. The south side of the building is enclosed by a series of ornately gabled Edwardian extensions, including a turret with conical roof. INTERIOR: an old wine cellar below the western half of the main range. The brick-fronted range has a C17 timber-framed core: to the right of the entry a 2-bay room, now divided into 2, has an ovolo-moulded main beam and is fully panelled with raised fielded panels. The entrance hall has a fine early C18 stair with bracketed open strings, three vase-on-reel balusters to each step and a dado with raised fielded panels. Along the base of the 1st storey balustrade is ornamental plasterwork with floral and leaf designs and a central wreathed anchor. Above part of the 2nd-storey stair a section of C17 stair with barley-sugar-twist balusters. The mansard-roofed range contains a length of the south precinct wall of the Abbey, which forms part of one internal wall on the ground storey and includes a hollow chamfered pointed arched stone doorway, uncovered during recent repair work.
Listing NGR: TL8580163977
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466463
- 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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