Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE ABBEY PRECINCTS
639-1/8/98 (South side)
07/08/52 Alwyne House and Alwyne Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
MUSTOW STREET
(South side)
Alwyne House)

GV I

House, built against part of the former Abbot's Palace which
forms its rear wall; now used as offices and a restaurant by
the Local Authority. Early C14 and early C19 with a slightly
later extension on the south. In random flint with red brick
and stone dressings. Hipped plaintiled roof with a wide eaves
overhang.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, cellar and attics. 5 window range:
12-pane sashes in shallow reveals with segmental-arched heads
to frames and surrounds and projecting stone sills. The 2nd
window from the south end on each storey is blank. A stone
string course runs between the storeys. A 6-panel entrance
door with panelled reveals has a rectangular fanlight with
intersecting glazing bars, on to which an early C19 doorcase
in Gothick style has been superimposed: clustered columns and
a heavy castellated cornice.
At the south end, a 2-storey canted early C19 extension in
stone rubble with freestone quoins and dressings has a
crenellated parapet; string courses below the parapet and
between storeys. Three 12-pane sash windows to each storey in
shallow reveals with hood-moulds over. This is the only
building within the former Abbey Precincts with a main wall
which is part of the former monastic buildings. The rear wall
is in coursed flint with roughly formed later castellations.
An early C14 doorway with a moulded pointed arch and
hood-mould has a C19 boarded door with applied pilaster strips
and 3 small pointed windows. To the right of the door, a
single light window with a C19 stone surround. To the north of
the house, a separate but linked 2-storey cottage with kidney
flint walling, red brick dressings and slate roof. A 2-light
small-paned casement window on each storey with a
segmental-arched head to frame and surround.
INTERIOR: cellar, below the older part of the house, has side
walls of rubble flint with a admixture of stone which are
butted up against the rear wall with straight joints. The rear
cellar wall is part of the main early C14 back wall which can
be seen above ground and is in the same small coursed flints

with traces of old render. Within the house most features date
from the early C19, including the stair with stick balusters
and wreathed handrail, but the rear wall is approximately a
metre thick with deep splays to the doorway and window.
The grading of these buildings reflects the importance of the
monastic remains incorporated in them.

Listing NGR: TL8569264313

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17526900

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability