The Suffolk Hotel

The Suffolk Hotel, formerly known as The Greyhound Inn, is a hotel located on Buttermarket in Bury St Edmunds. It was renamed in the 19th century and was rebuilt on an older site in the early 17th century. The front of the building dates from around 1830, with the ground storey remodeled around 1873, when a wide carriage entrance was infilled and the ground storey windows were replaced. The structure is primarily timber-framed and has a rendered front with a slate roof featuring a paired modillion eaves soffit and a richly decorated plaster frieze below.

The hotel has three storeys and cellars, with an eight-window range. The windows are sashes in flush cased frames, with the first-storey windows lacking glazing bars, and the second-storey windows featuring nine panes. A moulded stucco band with acanthus-leaf decoration runs below the second-storey windows. Below the first-storey windows, there is a continuous row of cast-iron guard rails. The ground storey has ten windows and two doors arranged in a pattern of 4:1:3:1:3, set into a semicircular-headed arcade with enriched keystones. Polished pink granite columns, added in 1873, with ornate 'Romanesquoid' capitals, are positioned between the windows. Additionally, six Corinthian pilasters across the front feature capitals adorned with various decorations, including acanthus leaves, vine leaves, and grapes, highlighted in bright colours.

The extensive cellars show no readily identifiable medieval features and have undergone considerable modernisation.