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Toper Lane, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 2AT

Number 13 Southgate Street has a 16th century rear range and a 19th century front range. Both timber framed refronted in red brick and stuccoed at the sides. Formerly The Jolly Toper public house which opened circa 1833 and closed in 1908. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272099 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.

Originally one house divided into two, numbers 19 and 20 Southgate Street are later 17th century incorporating fragments of an earlier structure. Timber framed, with the front wall rebuilt further forward in white brick in the early 19th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272103 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.

Featuring the electrical supply to Bury St. Edmunds, with the old and new substation connections also shown in Image and Image Just to the left of the pylon the top of a stone tower can be seen - I think this is the Norman Tower.

Number 12 Southgate Street is 14th century, timber framed with exposed widely-spaced studs and tension braces. The house contains the former two-bay open hall of a small 14th century house, much restored in the 1980s. There is a 19th century rear extension in flint and brick. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272211 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.

Newells, number 8 Southgate Street (nearest the camera) is 17th century, altered in the 18th century, gable end to the street, timber framed and stuccoed. The square bay is supported on wooden posts and has a small-paned former shop window. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272204 Number 9 Southgate Street is mid or late 16th century, timber framed and jettied to the street. The ground floor has been refaced with stuccoed brick. The house was greatly modernised in the 1960s. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272207 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.

Sixteenth century house https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272207?section=official-list-entry

Sixteenth century house https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272109?section=official-list-entry

Fourteenth century house https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272211?section=official-list-entry

Line with late medieval and later houses.

Number 24 Southgate Street is mid 16th century, timber framed and stuccoed, jettied along the street. There is a two storey gabled rear wing in an L shaped plan. There is a 19th century addition in the angle between the front range and the rear wing. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272109 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.