72, Guildhall Street

This building, located at 72 Guildhall Street in Bury St Edmunds, is a house with an 18th-century front, an early 17th-century rear, and an early 19th-century extension. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered with raised roughcast panels and has a plaintiled mansard roof.

The exterior is two storeys high, with attics and a cellar. It has a two-window range with 12-pane sash windows in flush cased frames on both storeys. There are two flat-headed dormers, each with 6-pane sash windows. The entrance is marked by a six-panel door, with the top two panels glazed, accessed by steps and framed by a wood doorcase that has plain reveals, panelled pilasters, and a pediment. An internal chimney stack has a plain square red brick shaft topped with chimney pots. The rear of the building features a long range constructed in two phases.

Inside, the cellar runs beneath the entire front range, with walls made of some old flint and render, but mainly 19th-century brick, containing various niches added in two stages. The ceiling is timber, partly from the 18th century and partly using reused earlier joists. The front range has two bays and a 20th-century division into two rooms. Although earlier partitions have been removed, the current entryway, which used to lead into a narrow early 19th-century corridor with a semicircular-headed rear archway, is likely in its original position. There is a fireplace with a mid-18th-century eared wood surround. An early 19th-century staircase features stick balusters, closed strings, rounded newel posts, and a curved handrail.

The rear wing, dating from the 17th century, is two storeys high with two bays, exposing some of its main components and studding on the upper storey. The roofs are covered. Extending from this wing is an early 19th-century range made of flint and brick, also with a mansard roof, which is said to have initially served as a corn store.