The Black Boy Public House

The Black Boy Public House is a public house located on Guildhall Street in Bury St Edmunds. It dates back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame and is jettied along the street front. The ground storey is faced in 19th-century red brick, while the first storey has tile-hanging in alternating bands of plain and scalloped tiles. The roof is covered with plain tiles.

The structure has two storeys, attics, and a cellar. An internal chimney stack has four saw-tooth shafts on a rectangular base with a front panel. On the first storey, there are three windows, all of which are three-light early 20th-century casements with a single horizontal glazing bar in a heavy flush frame. The ground storey has four sash windows, each with a single vertical glazing bar in plain reveals and moulded heads below the jetty. There are three gabled dormers with plain bargeboards and hanging finials, each containing a single bar two-light casement window. The entrance door has two leaves within a plain wood surround, topped by a rectangular fanlight and flanked by two shaped brackets below the jetty.

At the rear, there is a small timber-framed wing and a larger extension built in 1935. The interior features a modernised brick-lined cellar and a frame with four bays. Most internal timbers are covered, but the chamfered main beams are exposed on the ground storey. The bay at the south end serves as an open carriage entrance with an exposed ceiling, showcasing a chamfered main beam with triangle stops and widely spaced flat-set joists.