Tower Cottage
TOWER COTTAGE, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375564
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER COTTAGE, ABBEY PRECINCTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375564
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER COTTAGE, 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:
- TOWER COTTAGE, 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 85584 64062
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SE ABBEY PRECINCTS 639-1/8/5 (North side) 12/07/72 Tower Cottage (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY PRECINCTS No.8 Churchyard (Tower Cottage))
GV II
House. c1840. By LN Cottingham. Red brick with purple brick diapering; rusticated stone dressings; slate roofs. In early Victorian Tudor style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; cellar to part; irregular form, with 2 gabled ranges. A tall narrow turret, which may have contained an original stair, is crenellated with a lead-covered spirelet. An internal chimney-stack on the south has 4 shafts of moulded brick with moulded bases and heavy starred caps. Various windows in Tudoresque style: on the ground storey 5-light, mullion-and-transom with arched heads to the lights. On the 1st storey, a 3-light rectangular bay with a moulded oriel base has a row of stone panels below decorated with quatrefoils. A stepped stone band below the 1st storey windows. Entrance door with rectangular hood-mould over, has arched spandrels, on the left carved with the initials TF (probably for Thomas Fenton) and on the right with an arrangement of mason's tools. INTERIOR: although the layout has been altered a number of original Tudoresque fittings remain. The small square entrance vestibule has a coved and painted wood ceiling with moulded ribs resting on ornate capitals and 4 hanging pendants. A half-glazed door to the ground floor room has a pointed head and linenfold panelling to the base. The principal room on the upper storey has a fine ornate Gothic fireplace surround, cornice with paterae and carved wood fittings.
Listing NGR: TL8558464062
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466465
- 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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