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Number 67 Whiting Street consists of a 16th century rear range and an 18th century front range, both timber framed and fronted with roughcast panels. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1096709 Whiting Street is one of the north-south streets laid out by Abbot Baldwin in the 12th century and has buildings from the early medieval to the late 20th century. The street is divided by Churchgate Street at its midpoint and the character is mainly residential to the southern part with a mixture of residential with retail and commercial uses to the northern part. 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.

Numbers 65 and 66 Whiting Street are a pair of early 19th century cottages fronted in white brick and stuccoed sides and rear. Listed, for group value, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1096749 Whiting Street is one of the north-south streets laid out by Abbot Baldwin in the 12th century and has buildings from the early medieval to the late 20th century. The street is divided by Churchgate Street at its midpoint and the character is mainly residential to the southern part with a mixture of residential with retail and commercial uses to the northern part. 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.

Number 68 Whiting Street is 16th century timber framed and originally jettied along the street. Refronted in the 18th century when the jetty was underbuilt and stuccoed. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1096713 Whiting Street is one of the north-south streets laid out by Abbot Baldwin in the 12th century and has buildings from the early medieval to the late 20th century. The street is divided by Churchgate Street at its midpoint and the character is mainly residential to the southern part with a mixture of residential with retail and commercial uses to the northern part. 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.

Masongill House, number 69 Whiting Street, is 15th and 16th century, timber framed, with a later refronting incorporating applied mock timbering. There are two rear 16th century wings. There are some 17th and 19th century internal features remaining. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1096717 Whiting Street is one of the north-south streets laid out by Abbot Baldwin in the 12th century and has buildings from the early medieval to the late 20th century. The street is divided by Churchgate Street at its midpoint and the character is mainly residential to the southern part with a mixture of residential with retail and commercial uses to the northern part. 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.

Number 58 Churchgate Street is 16th century, timber framed and refronted in white brick in the early 19th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248219 Churchgate Street is aligned with the Norman Tower entrance to the Abbey and would have been the ceremonial route between the Abbey and the Guildhall, the spiritual and the temporal. The street has some of the town’s most important historic buildings with structures dating back to the 13th 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.

Number 59 Churchgate Street was two cottages, now one. Built in the mid 19th century in red brick, now painted. Churchgate Street is aligned with the Norman Tower entrance to the Abbey and would have been the ceremonial route between the Abbey and the Guildhall, the spiritual and the temporal. The street has some of the town’s most important historic buildings with structures dating back to the 13th 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 church hall to the United Reformed Church Image was built in 1887 as a Sunday School. In white brick with stone dressings in a Victorian Gothic style. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1132618 Whiting Street is one of the north-south streets laid out by Abbot Baldwin in the 12th century and has buildings from the early medieval to the late 20th century. The street is divided by Churchgate Street at its midpoint and the character is mainly residential to the southern part with a mixture of residential with retail and commercial uses to the northern part. 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.

Number 57 Churchgate Street was built in the early 19th century in white brick, painted on the ground floor. There is a 20th century rear extension. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1248218 Churchgate Street is aligned with the Norman Tower entrance to the Abbey and would have been the ceremonial route between the Abbey and the Guildhall, the spiritual and the temporal. The street has some of the town’s most important historic buildings with structures dating back to the 13th 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.