15, Hatter Street, Bury St. Edmunds, West Suffolk, Suffolk, IP33 (Grade II)

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW HATTER STREET 639-1/14/424 (West side) 12/07/72 No.15

House; now a restaurant with living accommodation above. Early C19 front; early C16 core. Timber-framed and roughcast with a shallow pitched roof of C20 Roman tiles. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 2 windows to each storey: 12-pane sashes to the 1st storey, 6-pane to the top storey; one shop window with plate glass and one 12-pane sash to the ground storey with a C20 recessed entry between them. INTERIOR: cellar walls partly of flint with large blocks of stone. Fragmentary remains of timber-framing on the ground storey, in 2 bays; probably originally jettied along the front. The main post of the rear wall is now free-standing on a small section of original sill-beam: the post is moulded down its sides and a long shaft has been hacked off the front below the remains of a decorated capital with a long empty mortice for a brace above it. On the 1st storey 2 rooms have been made into one with boxed-in beams. The top storey is an early C19 addition. Extensions at the rear of the same date, and a stair with stick balusters, curved and wreathed handrail and bracketed treads.