18 And 18A, Hatter Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW HATTER STREET 639-1/14/426 (West side) 07/08/52 Nos.18 AND 18A

GV II

House, now offices. C16 and C17 with early C18 alterations and extensions. Timber-framed; rendered in panels; plaintiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar. Roof with 3 gables facing the street; a wide arched entrance at the south end with exposed timbering along its side walls. 6 window range: 12-pane sashes to each storey in flush cased frames with thick early C18 ovolo-moulded glazing-bars. A central entrance door has a doorcase with a flat pediment supported by heavy scrolled brackets; plain reveals; door with 2 leaves and a fanlight with vertical glazing-bars. INTERIOR: rubble and stone to the cellar walls; ceiling supported by a heavy chamfered main beam and flat joists. Above ground, the oldest part of the building is the wide entrance at the south end and the room above it, which have heavy studding and are separately framed in 3 bays with possible indications of a medieval core. The remainder of the front range has extensive early C18 changes and has been extended at the rear, where there is a fine stair and balustrade with closed strings, barley-sugar twist balusters, plain newels and moulded handrail. Panelled dado. In both the front upper rooms corner fireplaces with bolection-moulded surrounds have been introduced. A narrower C17 rear range of 2 storeys and attics, has a plaintiled mansard roof and is faced with ornate Edwardian tile-hanging. 2 rooms to each storey: on the ground storey one room has full height panelling with raised mouldings and a heavy moulded wooden cornice. Bolection moulded fireplace surround with plain pilasters and heavy cornice projecting slightly above. The 1st storey room has a C17 main beam with scroll-stops. A C19 extension to the west of the rear range has a shallow-pitched roof and is also tile-hung.

Listing NGR: TL8539764089