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

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW HATTER STREET 639-1/14/429 (West side) 12/07/72 No.21

House, now a restaurant with living accommodation above. C18 and early C19 with fragmentary earlier core. White brick front, rendered sides; steeply-pitched plaintiled roof with a wood modillion eaves cornice along the front and 2 gables to the side frontage. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellar. 2 window range: 12-pane sashes in deep reveals with projecting stone sills and flat gauged arches. A raised brick band above the ground-storey windows. 2 flat-headed lead-covered dormers with C20 2-light casement windows. Entrance door on left with 6 raised fielded panels, plain fanlight and a brick surround with plain reveals and stilted arch. The side frontage has C20 shop windows and entrance door and an external chimney-stack with a C12 stone base, moulded at the outer corners, which, although fragmentary, appears to be in situ. The upper part of the stack is in red brick. INTERIOR: no internal features pre-date the C18: remains of a dog-leg stair with turned balusters. The chimney-stack has 3 hearths, one on each storey, 2 with early C19 raised cast-iron grates; the hearth in the attic has a surround of small old Dutch tiles. From inside, it appears that the external stonework is the side of the chimney-stack and that the hearths are all at right-angles to it.