10, Hatter Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW HATTER STREET 639-1/14/421 (East side) 12/07/72 No.10 (Formerly Listed as: HATTER STREET (East side) Nos.9, 9A, 10 AND 10A)

GV II

House, now shop and printing office. C16 and early C17 with later alterations. Timber-framed and rendered, with applied mock timbering to the upper storey above a jetty. Plaintiled roof. Cross-wing form with a wide, high gable facing the street. A rear range is linked to the front by a large internal red brick chimney-stack with attached shafts. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and cellar: 2 window range: sashes with a single vertical glazing-bar in flush cased frames. A C20 shop front to the ground storey. INTERIOR: the 2-bay front range has most timbers hidden and has been raised. The rear range, also in 2 bays, has identical cross-beams exposed on the ground and 1st storey ceilings, with a small chamfer and scroll stops. On the 1st storey, sparse widely-spaced joists exposed, and some studding with arched braces at the corners. The main tie-beam is morticed into the sides of the main posts well below wall-plate level, giving a large attic area (cf. No.40 Crown Street, qv). Beside the chimney-stack the remains of a Jacobean stair with bulbous balusters. Roof timbers covered.

Listing NGR: TL8542564072