35, Buttermarket

35 Buttermarket is a commercial building located in Bury St Edmunds. It features a rear wing dating from the late 15th century to early 16th century, with a front range from the 16th century that was raised and refronted in the early 19th century. The building has undergone 20th-century alterations. It is timber-framed with a front made of gault brick and a plain tile roof, which has a truncated stack at the right end and a tall stack at the rear wing. The structure is L-shaped with the wing at the rear right, standing three storeys high with a cellar. The first and second floors have a two-window range of 1/1 sash windows with painted stucco lintels, while the front has a 20th-century shop front. The rear features a flat-roofed extension, various casements and doors, and a part catslide roof connecting to the rear wing.

Inside, some timber framing is partially visible. The front range retains plastered bridging beams on the ground and first floors, with a large wide flat joist visible on the ground floor. The wallplate and purlin can be seen at the rear of the front range. The cellar contains reused 16th-century roll-moulded joists, and there are 18th-century doors to both the cellar and first floors. An early 19th-century staircase in the front range features a part stick baluster balustrade. The late 15th-century rear wing may have originally served as an open hall, as indicated by smoke-blackened plaster visible beneath a clean 16th-century tie beam, above which is a 16th-century roof of wide coupled rafters with an 18th-century ridge inserted below. This building showcases a good survival of 15th and 16th-century timber framing, is depicted on Warren's map of 1776, and is part of a significant group of historic buildings in the town center.