7 And 8, Hatter Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW HATTER STREET 639-1/14/419 (East side) 07/08/52 Nos.7 AND 8

GV II

House, later a pair of houses, now divided into 5 flats. Early C19, with an earlier core. Timber-framed; faced in white brick; the slate roof, with a wood dentil eaves cornice, has pedimented wide wings and a slightly recessed centre. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 5 window range, arranged 2:1:2: 12-pane sashes in plain reveals with flat gauged arches and projecting stone sills, apart from the 1st storey centre which has a large Venetian window with the upper arch blocked and a raised stone band at sill level. The sash window above it is flanked by 2 circular stone-framed bulls-eye windows. The ground storey has 2 balanced 6-panelled doors, with elliptical arched doorways and a 12-pane sash window between them, set in a tetrastyle recess with Tuscan columns. The back wall is in flint rubble: a 12-pane sash window with a Gothick head lights the stair. A rear wing extends at each end. On the north, behind No.7, the wing has walling in a mixture of flint, old red brick and reused stone, with rough stone quoining; on the south, behind No.8, the 2-storey rear is timber-framed and rendered with a C20 extension at the east end. INTERIOR: the entrance hall has an early C19 central stair with one flight dividing above a half-landing into 2: stick balusters, moulded newels, a plain wreathed handrail and closed strings. The timber-framed range running through from the back into the front of No.8 is the oldest part of the building with the top storey on the street frontage added in the early C19. Several main beams exposed or boxed-in on the ground storey, 2 with heavy ornate brackets.

Listing NGR: TL8542264087