Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET
639-1/14/150 (South side)
12/07/72 Nos.53 AND 54
Midland Bank

GV II

Bank, formerly 2 separate houses and shops. An early C18 front
to No.53, and a later front in matching style to No.54. Red
brick, laid in English bond, with a panelled brick parapet and
a stone modillion cornice with a dentilled frieze. The join in
the front is clearly visible in the brickwork. Fishscale
slates to the steeply-pitched roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; cellars. No.53, on the east,
has end chimney-stacks set into gables with high brick
copings. 6 window range: small-paned sashes in plain shallow
reveals with gauged heads. 4 flat-headed dormers in the roof
with 4-pane casement windows. A modillion stone band with a
brick band above runs between the storeys. On the ground
storey, plate glass windows, which extend to ground level, are
separated by a row of Tuscan columns.
INTERIOR: retains some moulded plasterwork from the original
Edwardian bank conversion; in the vestibule, dentils and
paterae to the boxed-in beams.

Listing NGR: TL8533364175

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26433898

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