Edwardstone

History

Historical writings

Listed buildings

• Edwardstone's parish church, St Mary's, is a Grade I listed building.
• Priory Green contains four Grade II listed buildings, the Barn to the North of Lynn's Hall, Lynn's Hall, Priory Cottage, and Priory Green Cottage.
• Mill Green has five Grade II listed buildings, all timber-framed and plastered houses, Crossways, Earls Cottages, Mill Green Cottage, Moat Farm Cottage, and Sans Souci.
• There are four Grade II listed buildings in Round Maple, all timber-framed and plastered: Flushing Farm, an 18th or early 19th century building; Little Thatch, a renovated 17th to 18th century single-storey building; Quicks Farm, a house with a red brick front, gable ends; and Seasons, a single-storey thatched building with attics.

  Notable residents

• John Hoskyns, Policy Advisor to Margaret Thatcher while head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from May 1979 and April 1982.
• Thomas Browne,, Archdeacon of Ipswich from 1946 until 1963 and honorary canon at St Edmundsbury Cathedral from 1936 to 1946.
• Henry Lowry-Corry, Colonel in the British Army, Conservative politician, and Member of Parliament for County Tyrone 1873-1880.
• William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, landowner and benefactor.
• Joseph Brand,, merchant, landowner, Member of Parliament for Sudbury in 1660
• John Winthrop,, Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony.