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Prussia Lane, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 2AW

The map says this is Prussia Lane, but the road itself has no sign, at this end at least. It connects Raingate Street to Southgate Street. Assuming that these road names come from the openings in the original town walls, it is surprising that two were built so close together. The house with the tall wall is called Red Bricks - good to see that they found such a distinctive feature to inspire the name.

Number 2 Southgate Street is 17th century, timber framed and stuccoed. There are two small 19th century shop windows. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272197 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.

Police car parked outside the police station at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.

Number 3 Southgate Street has a 16th century core. Altered and encased in roughcast brick in the early 19th century when the two shop windows were inserted. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272198 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.

Number 154 Southgate Street is a 16th century house refronted in the 18th century. Timber framed and rendered. Some original internal features remain. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1084193 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 a terrace of three houses, now two are numbers 4 and 5 Southgate Street. There is a 16th century timber framed core and, in the early 19th century the front wall was removed and the houses built forward in white brick. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272199 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.

Largely sixteenth century house https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272175?section=official-list-entry

Number 153 Southgate Street is a 16th century house greatly restored and altered in the 1960s when a rear extension was added. Timber framed, stuccoed on the ground floor and jettied along the street. The ground floor windows replaced two early 19th century shop windows. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272180 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.

Road markings at the start of Southgate Street Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.

The Police Station of Suffolk Constabulary in Raingate Street.