Bury St Edmunds buildings [173]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 7 Sep 2020

Number 7, 8 and 9 St John's Street were originally one Wealden type house with a 2-bay open hall with a jettied wing to the north, (furthest from the camera), all under a single roof-line. Built in the 15th century, timber framed and stuccoed. After 16th century and later alterations, number 7 now has on the ground floor a shop which overlaps with number 6 Image The room on the first floor has no window and cannot be accessed from below nor from either side. Numbers 8 and 9 both have 20th century shop fronts with storage above. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1244960 North of the town centre Northgate Street and St John’s Street run towards the site of Northgate and the railway station and both streets have many older buildings. In between these two streets is a number of streets irregularly laid out (compared to the medieval grid of the town centre) containing mostly houses and buildings from the 19th century. 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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