Bury St Edmunds houses [100]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 12 Sep 2020

This terrace of small houses, numbers 21 to 30 Whiting Street originally contained 10 houses, now 8. Numbers 25 and 26, and numbers 27 and 28 have each been made into a single house and the former doorways of numbers 26 and 27 are now windows. Built circa 1840 with white brick fronts and red brick with flint rears. As with many buildings in Bury St Edmunds, the cellars are older than the houses above. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1096760 Whiting Street is one of the north-south streets laid out by Abbot Baldwin in the 12th century and has buildings from the early medieval to the late 20th century. The street is divided by Churchgate Street at its midpoint and the character is mainly residential to the southern part with a mixture of residential with retail and commercial uses to the northern part. Bury St Edmunds is a market town which is the cultural and retail centre for West Suffolk and is known for brewing (Greene King) and sugar (British Sugar). There is scattered evidence of earlier activity but essentially Bury St Edmunds began as one of the royal boroughs of the Saxons and a monastery was founded which became the burial place of King Edmund. A new Benedictine abbey was built in 1020 which became rich and powerful and the town was laid out on a grid pattern by Abbot Baldwin. After the dissolution the abbey became ruinous. A new church, later the cathedral, was begun in the early 16th century.

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