Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE ABBEY PRECINCTS
639-1/8/5 (North side)
12/07/72 Tower Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
ABBEY PRECINCTS
No.8 Churchyard (Tower Cottage))

GV II

House. c1840. By LN Cottingham. Red brick with purple brick
diapering; rusticated stone dressings; slate roofs. In early
Victorian Tudor style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; cellar to part; irregular form, with 2
gabled ranges. A tall narrow turret, which may have contained
an original stair, is crenellated with a lead-covered
spirelet. An internal chimney-stack on the south has 4 shafts
of moulded brick with moulded bases and heavy starred caps.
Various windows in Tudoresque style: on the ground storey
5-light, mullion-and-transom with arched heads to the lights.
On the 1st storey, a 3-light rectangular bay with a moulded
oriel base has a row of stone panels below decorated with
quatrefoils. A stepped stone band below the 1st storey
windows. Entrance door with rectangular hood-mould over, has
arched spandrels, on the left carved with the initials TF
(probably for Thomas Fenton) and on the right with an
arrangement of mason's tools.
INTERIOR: although the layout has been altered a number of
original Tudoresque fittings remain. The small square entrance
vestibule has a coved and painted wood ceiling with moulded
ribs resting on ornate capitals and 4 hanging pendants. A
half-glazed door to the ground floor room has a pointed head
and linenfold panelling to the base. The principal room on the
upper storey has a fine ornate Gothic fireplace surround,
cornice with paterae and carved wood fittings.

Listing NGR: TL8558464062

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656337

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)