Ixworth houses [42]
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Ixworth houses [42]
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 7 Sep 2020
This former coaching inn is now two houses, number 74 (Crown House) and number 76 High Street. Built in the 16th and 17th centuries, there is a main range with two unnequal gabled cross wings. Timber framed, stuccoed and jettied to Crown Lane. The coaching inn known as The Crown opened sometime prior to 1674 and closed sometime prior to 1840. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1285314 Ixworth is a village some 7 miles north east of Bury St Edmunds. Settled in Roman times and the site of a Roman fort. Later a civilian settlement was established and it became an important junction in the Roman road system of East Anglia. An Augustinian priory was founded in about 1170 and dissolved in 1537. Ixworth is the site of the earliest rural council housing built in England. Now most working residents commute to Bury St Edmunds.
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