Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE CROWN STREET
639-1/8/296 (East side)
12/07/72 Nos.1 AND 2
Tower House

GV II

Former Penny Bank, now offices. Dated 1846 on the north front.
Possibly by LN Cottingham (1787-1847). In red brick with
purple brick diapering and stone dressings; roofs with shaped
tiles and elaborately patterned moulded brick shafted
chimneys.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. 4 window range on the West
front and 5 window range on the North front facing the Norman
Tower. The windows are stone dressed, 2- 3- and 4-light,
double banked, traceried. There is a 7-light window on the
ground storey of the North front and a central chimney-stack,
2 gables, and a doorway with a pitched canopy and elaborately
carved stone arch carried on ogee brackets and short pillars.
The North end of the East front has a gable with heavy moulded
brick coping, a stone oriel window on the 1st storey and 2
narrow traceried windows below. The East front has a low
parapet with a moulded tile coping. A 'Tudor' arched door with
carved spandrels is set in a rectangular, stone dressed
opening. A stone band runs between storeys and there is a
moulded stone capped plinth. The East front adjoins Tower
Cottages which is in the same style and is described under
Abbey Precincts.
INTERIOR: extensive cellars, part brick-lined, part flint;
heavy re-used main beams to the ceilings. Some surviving
original features inside, including the ground storey ceilings
which have plaster cornices with Tudor flower ornament. Newel
stair with a round newel post moulded on the top storey.
(BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 150).

Listing NGR: TL8557164063

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26342863

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)