71, Southgate Street

71 Southgate Street is a house located in Bury St Edmunds, dating from the late 15th century to early 16th century, with a front added in the 18th century. The building is timber-framed and was once jettied, now faced in red brick with roughcast render on the south side. The roof is covered with 20th-century single Roman tiles and features a modillion eaves cornice.

The house has two storeys, a cellar, and an attic, with a three-window range. The windows are sashes with single vertical glazing bars set in flush cased frames, topped with flat gauged arches. The entrance features a six-panel door flanked by panelled pilasters and topped with a pediment on enriched console brackets.

Inside, the modernised cellar has rendered walls and segmental-arched niches around the perimeter. The frame consists of three bays, with exposed timbers and ceilings in the north and centre bays. The main cross-beams on the ground storey have a wide chamfer, and the joists are closely set and unchamfered. The main beam of the central truss has a dovetail housing for a missing main post. On the upper storey, the end walls are supported by tension braces halved against the studs. The crown-post roof features a plain crown-post with short braces to the collar-purlin, and the end trusses have additional short downward-sloping braces from posts to tie-beams. The end bay on the south side is a later addition, with most of its framing concealed.