Bury St Edmunds buildings [219]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 8 Sep 2020

Numbers 26, 28 and 29 Mustow Street were a row of cottages now divided into three, two cottages and a restaurant. Built in the 18th century, timber framed, partly rendered, partly flint and stone, partly refronted in brick, all under a mansard roof. A datestone in number 28 is from 1777 and numbers 26 and 28 were restored in 1981. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022602 Until the second half of the 20th century, there were almost no buildings east of the River Lark except along Eastgate Street which has a number of 16th and 17th century houses. Now there are several large housing estates and a fairly large industrial estate. 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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