Bury St Edmunds houses [288]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 8 Sep 2020

Numbers 21 and 22 Eastgate Street were originally one house, now divided into two. Built in the early to mid 16th century, timber framed and jettied to the street. The first floor is stuccoed, the ground floor is in white brick. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1343592 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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