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St. Martins Street, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1JL

A tiny terraced cottage in the centre of Bury St Edmunds, with the address 39 Cannon Street.

Numbers 37, 38 and 39 Cannon Street are a row of three houses. The houses contain the remains of a 13th century aisled house much altered in the 17th century and later. Timber framed and stuccoed with early 19th century fronts to numbers 37 and 38 and a modern front to number 39. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248040 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.

This pair of houses at numbers 46 and 47 Cannon Street are early 19th century with a probable earlier core and were probably originally one house. Timber framed and fronted in white brick. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248042 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.

The original company name remains inscribed on this building in Long Brackland. More recently it has been a local radio station and now it is a charity headquarters. Some odd brickwork at pavement level. Presumably there were windows into cellar rooms, but surely they would be very damp - a clue is in the road name, and this is also downstream of Tayfen.

This building at number 50 Long Brackland was built in 1887 in red brick with stone dressings for Leonard Makin a wholesale grocer. For many years during the 20th century the building was used by the Co-operative Society and Pordages as a warehouse. In 1982 it became the home of Saxon Radio an independent radio station. Recently converted to apartments. 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.

Dolphin House, number 50 Cannon Street was formerly the Dolphin Inn public house which opened in the 1830s and closed in the early 1950s. Built in the late 18th century, timber framed and roughcast with a mansard roof. There is a long rear range. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248043 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.