Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET
639-1/14/139 (South side)
07/08/52 Nos.31 AND 32
(Formerly Listed as:
ABBEYGATE STREET
Nos.31, 32 AND 32A)

GV II*

2 shops with offices and storage above. C18 with earlier
cellars; front thought to have been added in 1834.
Timber-framed and roughcast; a hipped slate roof with paired
modillions to the wide eaves cornice.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars; on a corner site. 5 window
range facing Abbeygate Street, small-paned sashes in flush
cased frames, apart from 3 on the first storey which have no
glazing bars. 2 window range on the Angel Hill frontage, also
small-paned sashes in flush cased frames. The ground storey
has a rich Greek Ionic colonnade with wooden unfluted columns;
the spaces between are infilled with C20 plate glass shop
windows.
INTERIOR: the cellar of No.31 is deep and apparently medieval,
lined with a mixture of flint rubble, old brick, and small
stone blocks. Its ceiling is supported by a heavy chamfered
main beam with lodged joists, some re-used. A low vaulted
tunnel, partly lined with old brick and numerous old tiles,
extends below Abbeygate Street. On the Angel Hill frontage the
splayed reveals of a window, now blocked, but formerly at
ground level. Documentary sources indicate that this cellar
was used as a tavern up to the early C19; in 1833 the tenant,
Thomas Bridgman, was also the landlord of the Angel Inn.
The cellar of No.32 has the remains of a stone doorway leading
into No.31. No exposed features of interest to rest of
interior.

Listing NGR: TL8549064216

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545677

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)