Plans have been submitted to renovate a redundant former theatre and turn it into an upmarket three-bedroom home.
Having once staged productions ranging from drama to pantomime, as well as drama classes and film screenings, the stage curtain fell at Eye Theatre for the final time in 2005.
The theatre space was in an assembly room of the former White Lion Hotel on Broad Street in Eye that dates back to 1738 and is Grade II listed.
Now proposals have been submitted by Thorndon-based Beech Architects to Mid Suffolk Council to renovate the front first floor to create two bedrooms with an en suite bathroom, while the assembly room and former theatre space would become an open plan kitchen/dining and living room.
MORE: Appeal hearing could revive plans for 126 new homes in EyeTheir planning submission states: "The proposals are modest and respectful of the setting with no works to the exterior proposed except repair and removal of modern fire escape. The main theatre space is respected and left unaltered with all panelling internally left exposed."
Former owner and artistic director Tom Scott established the 85-seat theatre, one of the smallest in the region, in 1991.
MORE: Actor celebrated for TV role as prison warder sells her 17th century Eye homeShortly before its closure in 2005, he told Friends of Eye Theatre in a newsletter: "I have struggled for the last couple of years in the face of, frankly, appalling box office figures to keep the theatre open. But I have finally had to admit defeat."
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