Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW ST ANDREW'S STREET SOUTH
639-1/10/593 (West side)
12/07/72 St Andrew's Castle
(Formerly Listed as:
ST ANDREW'S STREET SOUTH
(West side)
Convent of Saint Louis High School)

GV II*

House, later a convent school, now offices. Late C18/early
C19. Rubble stone walls and stone dressings; castellated
parapets with moulded stone string courses; slate roofs. In
Regency Gothick style; irregular plan-form. The east front has
a round tower projecting at the south end and a small round
turret at the north-east corner.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3 windows: 12-pane sashes with arched
glazing bars to the upper lights along the main front and a
larger sash window with ornate Gothick tracery in both storeys
of the tower. A stuccoed entrance porch with corner turrets
and castellations has a moulded pointed-arched doorway.
The south front has a projecting centre and a moulded stone
string course between the storeys. At the south-east corner is
a single-storey flat-roofed castellated and canted bay with 3
sash windows divided by slender columns with a cornice and
frieze above. 5 window range to the remainder of the south
front, all 12-pane sashes with arched glazing-bars to the
upper lights. A later single-storey extension in white brick
at the south-west end is in Victorian Gothic style; a 3-light
window has coloured glass.
INTERIOR: the ground storey retains many original Regency
Gothick features. Entrance hall with a plaster groined and
vaulted ceiling with bosses, supported by a central pillar
with corresponding half-round columns against the walls.
Pointed arched doors have architraves with similar wood
columns. In some rooms there is a mixture of Classical and
Gothick motifs in the plaster decoration. One room has a
ribbed plaster ceiling in Jacobean style.
The Victorian extension at the south-west corner of the house
has heavy panelling inside and was used by the nuns as a
chapel. Stair with late C19 details and dado.

Listing NGR: TL8513563966

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545568

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Recommended Books

• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)