73, Guildhall Street

73 Guildhall Street is a house located in Bury St Edmunds. The front of the building dates from the 18th century, while the rear section is from the early 17th century. It features a timber frame that is rendered with raised roughcast panels, topped by an old plain tiled roof with a wood modillion eaves cornice.

The house is two storeys high, with an attic and a cellar. The front has two window ranges, featuring 12-pane sash windows in flush cased frames, with the ground floor windows being deeper than those on the upper floor. There is a gabled dormer that contains a 2-light small-paned casement window. The entrance is through a six-panel door that is accessed by steps, set within a doorcase that has plain reveals, a moulded and shouldered architrave, and a stilted cornice above a rectangular fanlight with vertical glazing bars.

At the rear, there are two wings, with the southern wing displaying a 16-pane sash window on each storey in a flush cased frame. Inside, the cellars extend beneath the entire front range and under the smaller northern rear wing. The walling may date back to the 16th century and consists of flint, brick, and stone, with some rough areas; the ceilings are vaulted with brick from the 19th century. The interior underwent significant restoration in the 1950s, during which some 19th-century partitions and fireplaces were removed, leaving no original features visible in the front range, where the beams are boxed. An internal chimney stack connects to the two-bay southern rear wing, which features main cross-beams with small chamfers and scroll stops, along with traces of red ochre coloring on the ground floor. Similar cross-beams are found in the room above, where the main posts of the open truss and the wall plates are exposed. The roof of this wing is simple with rafters, and the attics of the front range are plastered.