Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET
639-1/14/144 (South side)
12/07/72 No.44A
(Formerly Listed as:
HATTER STREET
(East side)
Nos.1 AND 1A)

GV II

Includes: Nos.1 AND 1A HATTER STREET.
Offices. Late 1880s. In red brick with a parapet and moulded
brick modillion cornice. In ornate Renaissance style.
EXTERIOR: part 3-storeys, but mainly 2 storeys and basement;
on a corner site with a long frontage at Nos 1 & 1A Hatter
Street, which was originally the principal front. 3 window
range to Abbeygate Street and 10 window range to Hatter
Street, all sashes without glazing-bars. The top storey
windows are semicircular headed with moulded brick arches and
keystones and a moulded brick band at impost level. The 4
southern 1st storey windows on the Hatter Street frontage are
shorter than the rest with a row of windows below them. All
the ground-storey windows have moulded brick shouldered
architraves and sills. A broad band runs below the upper
windows with a moulded brick cornice and shaped aprons beneath
each of the windows. A high moulded brick plinth runs at sill
level: on the Abbeygate Street frontage 2 high basement
openings rise above the sill level with segmental-arched brick
heads and pierced cast-iron grilles. One ground storey window
has been made into a doorway. The original doorway, with
fanlight, is recessed in a semicircular brick arched opening
on the Hatter Street frontage.

Listing NGR: TL8540164193

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614183

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)