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

• Wikidata Q26656337

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)