60, Abbeygate Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1987. Offices, former bank.
60, Abbeygate Street
- WRENN ID
- waning-finial-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1987
- Type
- Offices, former bank
- Address
- 60, Abbeygate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 852 641
- Coordinates
- 52.2445, 0.7123
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 60 Abbeygate Street is a former bank, now used as offices, built in 1868 by John Gibson. It features a fine facade made of ashlared Ancaster stone with a base of Portland stone and has a parapeted roof. The building is three storeys high and consists of five bays, showcasing a High Victorian Italianate style. The ground floor is rusticated and has five openings separated by piers, each topped with keystoned flat arches. Although all windows have been replaced, the original openings remain intact. The first and second floors each have five original plate glass sash windows set in deep reveals, surrounded by moulded raised architrave surrounds. The first floor includes a criss-cross string course, while the second floor features fluted and foliated plat-bands. The second floor architraves are adorned with ornate keystones, and the projecting cornice is detailed with mutules, roundels, and dentils, all designed with bold and varied scales. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
60, Abbeygate Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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