Property News · August 3, 2018

Let’s move to Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: a charming culinary hotspot


Knapped flint. Weatherboards. Georgian townhouse blazing in the sunshine. I love Bury. Can you tell?What’s going for it? The streets of Bury are a catwalk for the architecturally curious (ie me). Suffolk-pink painted 16th-century cottages? Yes, please. Don’t like pink? Walk 10 metres and another stunner arrives. Knapped flint. Half timbers. Weatherboards. Georgian townhouse, orange brick walls blazing in the sunshine. Ooh, is that a spot of pargetting? It IS. Yum. Hey, nice tiles. A BOW WINDOW! Lemon-yellow paint? I like it. If Dan Cruickshank had been left in charge of town planning, he couldn’t have come up with better. They should set every BBC period drama here. I haven’t even mentioned the ancient abbey ruins (with hobbity houses built into them!), or the cathedral’s tower, or the hammerbeam roofs and don’t even get me going on the country’s only surviving Regency playhouse. This makes Bury sound like a museum. It isn’t. The Apex, the Abbeygate cinema, the burgeoning food scene: this town has life. I love Bury. Can you tell?The case against It’s relatively all alone on the A14 (but surrounded by underrated and beautiful countryside). Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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