The Broadway

The Broadway is a house located in Bury St Edmunds, dating from the early 16th century, with a 19th-century extension at the rear. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, topped with old plain tiles. The building originally comprised two bays and was once part of a larger structure that included No. 6, sharing a chimney stack with it.

The exterior of the house is two storeys high and has a two-window range, with 16-pane sash windows set in flush cased frames. A central six-panelled door is framed by a plain wood surround and features a fanlight with radiating glazing bars, topped by a flat cornice hood supported by shaped brackets. The rear extension includes walls made of flint, brick, and stone, and has a shallow-pitched slate roof. It contains two small-paned casement windows, which were likely originally sliding sashes, along with a central four-paned window that has lozenge-shaped panels in the glazing.

Inside, to the right of the entrance, the ground-floor room has a plain cambered lintel and rebuilt brickwork around the fireplace. Heavy studding is visible along the back wall, with housings for a three-light diamond-mullioned window. The room above features a plain cambered lintel over a blocked fireplace, alongside a section of early 17th-century wall painting. This painting includes a deep frieze with a formal pattern of rectangles enclosing four-petalled flowers, in faint colours of brown, yellow, and red ochre. The partition wall between the two upper rooms displays wide studding, a long tension brace, and a blocked doorway. Similar framing can be seen in the left end wall, and the upper room on the left retains studding on the back wall, which previously had a rear chimney stack.