Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE ANGEL HILL
639-1/8/159 (West side)
07/08/52 No.1

GV II

House, now used as doctors' surgeries on the ground storey
with living accommodation above; forms part of a complex
group, part C20, extending southwards along Athenaeum Lane and
westwards to Angel Lane. Reconstructed c1815/1816 on an older
site. White brick. Slate roof with a plain eaves soffit.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5 window range to front, 12-pane sashes
to the 1st storey, 6-pane to the 2nd storey and sashes with
plate glass to the ground storey, all in cased frames with
deep reveals and flat gauged arches over. A raised stucco band
runs below the 1st storey windows. A recessed central doorway
with a semicircular surround within a Doric portico with
fluted pillars and a heavy entablature.
A single-storey C20 range links the back of the building with
the former stable block facing on to Angel Lane. The front of
the stables facing the inner courtyard has a colour-washed
wall of kidney flint and red brick, a plain
semicircular-headed doorway and a wide segmental-arched
opening infilled with a window. On the upper storey 3 12-pane
sash windows in deep segmental-arched red brick reveals. C18
middle window with thick ovolo-moulded glazing bars. The Angel
Lane side of the stable was extended with a white brick front
which has a wide central semicircular arched opening flanked
by 2 semicircular headed doorways with radiating glazing-bars
to their fanlights.
INTERIOR: the main house has a hallway paved with limestone
flags and linking black dots. Plaster cornices with
acanthus-leaf decoration and floral motifs to the ground
storey rooms. Panelled doors and internal shutters. At the
rear, a semicircular-headed archway with moulded surrounds and
sunk panels to the reveals. The date of rebuilding is
indicated by an entry in the town Rate Book.

Listing NGR: TL8550664143

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26433910

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  For the Record
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)