Gateway And Walling To Number 13 The Fort Fronting The Road

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8663SW SICKLESMERE ROAD 639-1/12/545 (East side) 07/08/52 Gateway and walling to No.13 The Fort, fronting the road (Formerly Listed as: SICKLESMERE ROAD (East side) Facade of the Fort (Gateway and Walling fronting the road))

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Formerly known as: Facade of "The Fort" (gateway and walling fronting road), Out Southgate. The facade of the former gaol. 1803. By George Byfield, in a style reminiscent of George Dance's designs for Newgate. In stucco, simulating masonry. A pedimented central entrance pavilion, with simulated coursed rusticated masonry and vermiculated quoins, breaks forward slightly and is topped by a heavy blocking course above a cornice band with a bedmould. It rises above flanking 4-bay wings which also have a heavy blocking course above a cornice band with a bed mould. Massive entrance doors with a heavily barred lunette above are set in a deeply-splayed semicircular arch with rustications. End pavilions with simulated coursed rusticated masonry break forward slightly, each with a heavily barred semicircular lunette in an arched recess. (BOE: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk: London: 1974-: 154).

Listing NGR: TL8633663062