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Hatter Street, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1LZ

Chantry House, number 5 Hatter Street, has a 17th century or earlier timber framed core with an 18th century red brick front and rear additions. Some original internal features remain including a fine stair of circa 1700. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1246714 Hatter Street is the widest of the north-south streets within the medieval grid and is a richly varied historic street architecturally. The buildings are mostly residential but with some in commercial use, their ages and materials are diverse and as rich as their uses. 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 large house has been divided into two, numbers 6A and 6B Hatter Street. The core is 17th century timber framed, altered and extended in the 18th century and refronted in white brick in the 19th century. There are many 18th and 19th century internal features surviving. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1246715 Hatter Street is the widest of the north-south streets within the medieval grid and is a richly varied historic street architecturally. The buildings are mostly residential but with some in commercial use, their ages and materials are diverse and as rich as their uses. 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.

Bright sunlight and deep shadow on a January morning.

This painted complex of buildings consists of number 4 Hatter Street and Abbeygate Cinema. Number 4 is an early 19th century house which became a shop with living accommodation above in painted brick. The original entrance to the house was to the right in the south end which breaks forward slightly but this is now part of the cinema. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1246712 The cinema opened in 1924 and has undergone a number of changes of both ownership and of names. Currently operating with 3 screens. There is much history and detail at: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/24294 Hatter Street is the widest of the north-south streets within the medieval grid and is a richly varied historic street architecturally. The buildings are mostly residential but with some in commercial use, their ages and materials are diverse and as rich as their uses. 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.

Dates from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022533?section=official-list-entry

Seventeenth century house with early nineteenth century front https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022532?section=official-list-entry

Number 21 Hatter Street is an early 18th century house in white brick with rendered sides. The external chimney stack has a 12th century moulded stone base. The house is now used as part of a restaurant/bar which extendeds into Langton Place. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1022534 Hatter Street is the widest of the north-south streets within the medieval grid and is a richly varied historic street architecturally. The buildings are mostly residential but with some in commercial use, their ages and materials are diverse and as rich as their uses. 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.