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Eastgate Street, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1YR

The Glen, number 84 Eastgate Street is late 18th century with 19th century alterations. The front is painted brick, the sides and rear are painted flint. There is a large rear 1960s extension. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1343599 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.

Unicorn House, number 57 Eastgate Street was formerly The Unicorn public house which closed in 1925. Built in the late 15th or early 16th century, timber framed and stuccoed, a much altered interior and late 20th century extensions and modernised exterior. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1343598 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.

Looking east.

Numbers 85 and 86 Eastgate Street were probably originally one house. Built in the mid 17th century with late 18th/early 19th century alterations, timber framed and stuccoed on a high brick and flint plinth. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1343600 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.

'It was founded by an abbot of Bury St. Edmunds; but the exact date and the particular abbot are unknown...'; from http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/suff/vol2/p134

The boundary walls to the gardens of St Nicholas Image and Chapel Cottage extend round the corner of Hollow Road and Barton Road. The walls in part are the walling of the medieval Hospital of St Nicholas which stood on this site. The walls, in a mixture of flint, red brick and stone are, in part, 14th century but mostly are 18th and 19th reconstructions. At the corner is a traceried stone window in Decorated style which came from the demolished Hospital of St Petronilla in Southgate Street in the 19th century. Listed, grade II, with details at:

Number 43 Eastgate Street is the surviving two bays of a larger house. Built in the late 15th or early 16th century, refronted in red brick in the mid 19th century. There are some remnants of the original wattle and daub infill. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1343597 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.

This row of three houses, numbers 93, 94 and 95 Eastgate Street was built in the later 17th century, refronted in the 19th century. Numbers 94 and 95 were originally one house, now two. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1343601 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.