Tower Cottage Bury St. Edmunds, England
Listed Building Data
Tower Cottage has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1375564
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 12 July 1972
- Name
- TOWER COTTAGE
- Location
- TOWER COTTAGE, ABBEY PRECINCTS
- Parish
- Bury St. Edmunds
- District
- St. Edmundsbury
- County
- Suffolk
- Grid Reference
- TL 85584 64062
- Easting
- 585584.0000
- Northing
- 264062.0000
Listed Building Description
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BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SE ABBEY PRECINCTS 639-1/8/5 (North side) 12/07/72 Tower Cottage (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY PRECINCTS No.8 Churchyard (Tower Cottage))
GV II
House. c1840. By LN Cottingham. Red brick with purple brick diapering; rusticated stone dressings; slate roofs. In early Victorian Tudor style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; cellar to part; irregular form, with 2 gabled ranges. A tall narrow turret, which may have contained an original stair, is crenellated with a lead-covered spirelet. An internal chimney-stack on the south has 4 shafts of moulded brick with moulded bases and heavy starred caps. Various windows in Tudoresque style: on the ground storey 5-light, mullion-and-transom with arched heads to the lights. On the 1st storey, a 3-light rectangular bay with a moulded oriel base has a row of stone panels below decorated with quatrefoils. A stepped stone band below the 1st storey windows. Entrance door with rectangular hood-mould over, has arched spandrels, on the left carved with the initials TF (probably for Thomas Fenton) and on the right with an arrangement of mason's tools. INTERIOR: although the layout has been altered a number of original Tudoresque fittings remain. The small square entrance vestibule has a coved and painted wood ceiling with moulded ribs resting on ornate capitals and 4 hanging pendants. A half-glazed door to the ground floor room has a pointed head and linenfold panelling to the base. The principal room on the upper storey has a fine ornate Gothic fireplace surround, cornice with paterae and carved wood fittings.
Listing NGR: TL8558464062
