44A, ABBEYGATE STREET (See details for further address information)

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW ABBEYGATE STREET 639-1/14/144 (South side) 12/07/72 No.44A (Formerly Listed as: HATTER STREET (East side) Nos.1 AND 1A)

GV II

Includes: Nos.1 AND 1A HATTER STREET. Offices. Late 1880s. In red brick with a parapet and moulded brick modillion cornice. In ornate Renaissance style. EXTERIOR: part 3-storeys, but mainly 2 storeys and basement; on a corner site with a long frontage at Nos 1 & 1A Hatter Street, which was originally the principal front. 3 window range to Abbeygate Street and 10 window range to Hatter Street, all sashes without glazing-bars. The top storey windows are semicircular headed with moulded brick arches and keystones and a moulded brick band at impost level. The 4 southern 1st storey windows on the Hatter Street frontage are shorter than the rest with a row of windows below them. All the ground-storey windows have moulded brick shouldered architraves and sills. A broad band runs below the upper windows with a moulded brick cornice and shaped aprons beneath each of the windows. A high moulded brick plinth runs at sill level: on the Abbeygate Street frontage 2 high basement openings rise above the sill level with segmental-arched brick heads and pierced cast-iron grilles. One ground storey window has been made into a doorway. The original doorway, with fanlight, is recessed in a semicircular brick arched opening on the Hatter Street frontage.

Listing NGR: TL8540164193