St Andrews Castle

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW ST ANDREW'S STREET SOUTH 639-1/10/593 (West side) 12/07/72 St Andrew's Castle (Formerly Listed as: ST ANDREW'S STREET SOUTH (West side) Convent of Saint Louis High School)

GV II*

House, later a convent school, now offices. Late C18/early C19. Rubble stone walls and stone dressings; castellated parapets with moulded stone string courses; slate roofs. In Regency Gothick style; irregular plan-form. The east front has a round tower projecting at the south end and a small round turret at the north-east corner. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3 windows: 12-pane sashes with arched glazing bars to the upper lights along the main front and a larger sash window with ornate Gothick tracery in both storeys of the tower. A stuccoed entrance porch with corner turrets and castellations has a moulded pointed-arched doorway. The south front has a projecting centre and a moulded stone string course between the storeys. At the south-east corner is a single-storey flat-roofed castellated and canted bay with 3 sash windows divided by slender columns with a cornice and frieze above. 5 window range to the remainder of the south front, all 12-pane sashes with arched glazing-bars to the upper lights. A later single-storey extension in white brick at the south-west end is in Victorian Gothic style; a 3-light window has coloured glass. INTERIOR: the ground storey retains many original Regency Gothick features. Entrance hall with a plaster groined and vaulted ceiling with bosses, supported by a central pillar with corresponding half-round columns against the walls. Pointed arched doors have architraves with similar wood columns. In some rooms there is a mixture of Classical and Gothick motifs in the plaster decoration. One room has a ribbed plaster ceiling in Jacobean style. The Victorian extension at the south-west corner of the house has heavy panelling inside and was used by the nuns as a chapel. Stair with late C19 details and dado.

Listing NGR: TL8513563966