6, Hatter Street

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW HATTER STREET 639-1/14/418 (East side) 07/08/52 No.6

GV II

House, now subdivided. Early C17 core, altered and extended in the C18; with an C19 front. White brick to front, red brick to rear; slate roof in 2 parallel ranges with a modillion eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellars. 7 window range: all 12-pane sashes in deep reveals. 3 segmental-headed dormers. A central 6-panel door with a segmental fanlight and radial glazing-bars has recessed reeded columns and reveals. INTERIOR: cellar below part of front range has one very thick cross-wall in stone and flint with a small reset arched stone doorway. The whole front range is timber-framed, with some heavy early C17 main beams exposed on the ground storey. At the north end the 1st storey room is fully panelled with good Jacobean square panelling and has a fireplace surround decorated with strapwork motifs and flanked by fluted pilasters. Mid-Georgian alterations include 3 fireplaces with eared architraves; an ornate plaster cornice with formal floral motifs in the north ground storey room. In the parallel rear range the upper room at the south has substantial remains of C18 raised fielded panelling. The parallel back range has mainly early and later C19 features: a shallow full height canted bay has 3 small-paned sash windows to each storey.

Listing NGR: TL8542164106