Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET
639-1/14/127 (North side)
12/07/72 Nos.16 AND 16A
(Formerly Listed as:
ABBEYGATE STREET
No.16)

GV II

Offices of the Trustee Savings Bank, formerly a house and
shop. c1863, designed by William Spanton, photographer, for
his own use. No.16A is the Area Office of the TSB, which
occupies the upper floors of both No.16 and No.17 (qv). White
brick and slates.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys: this is the highest building in the
street. Stucco cornice and moulded rusticated quoins. 3 sash
windows to the top storey with vertical glazing bars and
stucco shouldered architraves. A raised band at sill level. 3
sash windows to the 2nd storey with single vertical glazing
bars, shouldered architraves and cornices. The first storey is
stuccoed and the 3 sash windows have moulded architraves and
segmental pediments on console brackets. The ground storey has
a plain C20 shop front.
INTERIOR: an original steep winder stair in the north-east
corner of No.16, which runs the whole height of the building,
has bracketed open strings, slender column balusters, and a
wreathed handrail.

Listing NGR: TL8539664224

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26272812

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)