4, Honey Hill

House, originally part of a public house and now a house again. The core of the building dates back to the 14th century, with 17th-century and later additions and alterations, and it was restored by the Bury St Edmunds Town Trust in 1988. It is timber-framed and rendered, with a slate roof.

The exterior is two storeys high, with a cellar and attic. Originally, it comprised an aisled hall and a three-bay cross-wing to the west. There are four windows, each with a 12-pane sash window set in a flush cased frame. A 20th-century entrance door with half-glazing is set in a plain wooden surround.

The cellars are large, divided into two sections. The east cellar has mixed walling, including Tudor brick at the bottom, and one angle with chamfered stone quoins. The other walls are a combination of rubble flint, reused stone blocks and brick. The west cellar is smaller with a similar rough combination of walling. The dividing wall between the two sections is particularly rough and irregular, and all wall surfaces are painted.

On the ground storey, one truss, originally at the upper end of the 14th-century aisled hall, has two reused 13th-century arcade posts with trenches for passing braces. A blocked ogee-headed doorway is located at the south end, which originally led from the cross-wing into the aisled hall. Exposed timbers are mainly 17th-century, with an inserted main beam in the former open hall area featuring an ovolo-moulded profile with run-out stops. A large ovolo-moulded beam on the first storey is unrelated to the main posts. A two-bay rear wing on the southwest has principal rafters visible. In the attic, the west gable retains remains of widely-spaced 14th-century framing with surviving wattle-and-daub infill. The rear stair wing has widely-spaced 17th-century studding on the upper storeys and rises to the attics. The early 19th-century winder stair has stick balusters, turned newels, and closed strings.