16 and 16a, Abbeygate Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Office.
16 and 16a, Abbeygate Street
- WRENN ID
- sharp-cornice-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1972
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 16 and 16a, Abbeygate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
- OS grid reference
- TL 853 642
- Coordinates
- 52.24498, 0.7142
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 16 and 16A Abbeygate Street in Bury St Edmunds are offices of the Trustee Savings Bank, originally built as a house and shop around 1863. The building was designed by William Spanton, a photographer, for his own use. No. 16A serves as the Area Office of the TSB and occupies the upper floors of both No. 16 and No. 17.
The building is constructed of white brick and slate and stands four storeys tall, making it the highest building on the street. It features a stucco cornice and moulded rusticated quoins. The top storey has three sash windows with vertical glazing bars and stucco shouldered architraves, along with a raised band at sill level. The second storey also has three sash windows, this time with single vertical glazing bars, shouldered architraves, and cornices. The first storey is stuccoed and has three sash windows with moulded architraves and segmental pediments on console brackets. The ground storey has a plain 20th-century shop front.
Inside, there is an original steep winder stair located in the north-east corner of No. 16, which runs the full height of the building. This stair features bracketed open strings, slender column balusters, and a wreathed handrail.
Local climate
16 and 16a, 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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