The Black Boy Public House

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW GUILDHALL STREET 639-1/15/391 (West side) 12/07/72 No.69 The Black Boy Public House (Formerly Listed as: GUILDHALL STREET (West side) No.69 Black Boy Inn)

GV II

Public house. C17, with C19 and C20 alterations. Timber-framed; jettied along the street frontage; faced in C19 red brick on the ground storey and with tile-hanging in alternate bands of plain and scalloped tiles to the 1st storey. Plaintiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellar. An internal chimney-stack has 4 saw-tooth shafts on a rectangular base with a front panel. 3 windows to the 1st storey: all 3-light early C20 casements with a single horizontal glazing bar in a heavy flush frame. 4 sash windows to the ground storey, all with a single vertical glazing bar in plain reveals with moulded heads below the jetty. 3 gabled dormers with plain bargeboards and hanging finials have single bar 2-light casement windows. Entrance door with 2 leaves in a plain wood surround with a rectangular fanlight flanked by 2 shaped brackets below the jetty. A small timber-framed wing at the rear and a larger extension of 1935. INTERIOR: modernised brick-lined cellar. Frame in 4 bays. Most internal timbers are covered; chamfered main beams only are exposed on the ground storey. The bay at the south end is an open carriage entrance with an exposed ceiling: chamfered main beam with triangle stops, joists set flat, widely spaced.

Listing NGR: TL8526063919