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Maynewater Lane, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 2AB

One way sign and graffiti in Maynewater Lane, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.

Built 1971-2.

Eighteenth century house with nineteenth century extension https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272159?section=official-list-entry

134B Southgate Street is one of eight recently built houses replacing a large earlier building, at one time a butchers. This one is pargeted. Sparhawk Street runs from Honey Hill via the open space of St Mary’s Square to Southgate Street which leads to Southgate Green, the site of the town’s Southgate and where St Petronella’s Hospital was located, established in the 12th century for the treatment of female lepers. The area is rich in history and has a great variety of buildings. 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.

Housing built in 1868 for workers at the nearby Greene King Brewery.

Numbers 130 and 131 Southgate Street were originally one house irregularly divided into two. The 5 bays to the north (furthest from the camera) are 18th century, the 2 bays to the south are 19th century with a lower roof pitch. Built in dark red brick with lighter red brick dressings. There are two rear extensions of the 1960s. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272159 Sparhawk Street runs from Honey Hill via the open space of St Mary’s Square to Southgate Street which leads to Southgate Green, the site of the town’s Southgate and where St Petronella’s Hospital was located, established in the 12th century for the treatment of female lepers. The area is rich in history and has a great variety of buildings. 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.

Accessed off Westgate Street is the St Edmund Hospital. Built as a house, later used as a hotel and now a private hospital and nursing home. Constructed in the early/mid 18th century, altered and extended in the 19th century. There are a mixture of 18th and early 19th centuries internal features and evidence of changes of layout. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1135174 Westgate Street is the southernmost street of the medieval grid and it is mainly about the Greene King Brewery with so many of the buildings constructed for its processes or for its employees. In addition to the brewery there is a rich mix of historic buildings in diverse materials, including white brick, red brick and stucco render. The street has the only surviving intact Regency theatre. 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.

Footpath by the end of Maynewater Lane.

Numbers 135, 136 and 137 Southgate Street are a terrace of three early 19th century houses incorporating fragments of an earlier building. Timber framed and roughcast at the front, flint with brick dressings at the rear. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272160 Sparhawk Street runs from Honey Hill via the open space of St Mary’s Square to Southgate Street which leads to Southgate Green, the site of the town’s Southgate and where St Petronella’s Hospital was located, established in the 12th century for the treatment of female lepers. The area is rich in history and has a great variety of buildings. 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.