Cupola House, Bury St Edmunds

Cupola House is a building in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England.

It was originally two timber-framed properties, converted during the 17th century by Thomas Macro, a prosperous apothecary, into a ground-floor shop with a dwelling above.

[1] His son Thomas Macro (died 1737, aged 88), grocer, alderman and five times chief magistrate of Bury St Edmunds, made extensive modifications to the building.

The height was increased and Baroque features were added, including an iron balcony and a cupola, on which was fitted a ball finial and weather vane bearing the date 1693 and initials TMS (Thomas Macro and his wife Susan).

[1][3] On 16 June 2012 it was badly damaged in a fire; the front survived, but the rear of the building, and most of the second floor, attic and roof was lost.