Dog and Partridge Inn

The Dog and Partridge Inn is a public house located in Bury St Edmunds, dating to the early and later 17th century, with later alterations from the 18th and early 19th centuries. It is a timber-framed and rendered building with plaintiled roofs, comprising a 4-bay main range, a parallel range to the rear, and a 2-bay cross-wing. Two gable-end chimney stacks are visible on the south side.

The front of the main range features a jetty with a wide overhang, supported by ornate console brackets. The front elevation has a 4-window range of 20-pane sashes in flush cased frames with projecting timber sills. At ground level, a 3-light canted bay window is on the left, and a fixed small-pane former shop window is on the right, with an entrance door between. The doorcase is ornamented with egg-and-dart and bead-and-reel motifs and a moulded cornice supported on console brackets. The rear range is three storeys high, with a 3-window range on each level; the centre window on the top storey is blocked. The cross-wing has an overhang at eaves level with simple brackets, and a canted bay window rises through two storeys with a 3-light small-paned sash. An old 2-light latticed casement window with pintle hinges is in the attic.

Inside the jettied range, the main cross-beams of the ground-floor ceiling are exposed, of varying sizes and chamfered, with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. Partition walls have been removed. An upper room has a boxed-in beam. The exposed upper timbers of the rear range appear older than those in the front, with visible studding and ovolo-moulded main beams. The cross-wing reveals boxed-in beams and a former end chimney stack of 17th-century brick, with an ovolo-moulded timber lintel. Behind the stack is a 3-bay 18th-century extension in brick and flint, initially with an upper storey, now open to collar level, featuring a clasped purlin roof. A late 18th/early 19th-century former stable block, facing into the rear yard, is joined to it on the west by a 20th-century link. The stable block's walls are of flint, brick and stone, with painted ground storey and rendered upper portions. The original mansard roof has been raised along the south side with a shallow pitch. It features three large 16-pane sash windows to the upper storey in plain reveals and one 20-pane sash to the ground storey.