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60, Abbeygate Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.2445 / 52°14'40"N

Longitude: 0.7123 / 0°42'44"E

OS Eastings: 585268

OS Northings: 264165

OS Grid: TL852641

Mapcode National: GBR QF0.6WS

Mapcode Global: VHKD4.9VD8

Plus Code: 9F426PV6+QW

Entry Name: 60, Abbeygate Street

Listing Date: 11 February 1987

Last Amended: 30 October 1997

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1141149

English Heritage Legacy ID: 466618

ID on this website: 101141149

Location: Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk, IP33

County: Suffolk

District: West Suffolk

Civil Parish: Bury St Edmunds

Built-Up Area: Bury St Edmunds

Traditional County: Suffolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk

Church of England Parish: Bury St Edmunds St Mary

Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich

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Description


BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/156 (South side) 11/02/87 No.60 (Formerly Listed as: ABBEYGATE STREET No.60 Alliance Building Society)

GV II

Offices, formerly bank. 1868, by John Gibson. Fine ashlared facade in Ancaster stone with a base of Portland stone; parapeted roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5 bays. High Victorian Italianate style. Rusticated ground floor has 5 openings divided by piers with keystoned flat arches. All windows replaced, but openings undamaged. First and second floors have 5 original plate glass sashes in deep reveals with moulded raised architrave surrounds. First floor has criss-cross string course, second floor fluted and then foliated plat-bands. Ornate keystones to second floor architraves, projecting cornice with mutules, roundels and dentils, all boldly detailed and deliberately varied in contrasting scales. INTERIOR: not inspected. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 149).

Listing NGR: TL8526864165

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