71, Guildhall Street

71 Guildhall Street is a house from the early 19th century located in Bury St Edmunds. It is built of white brick and features a slate roof with a paired wood modillion eaves cornice. The building has three storeys and cellars, with a five-window arrangement that is organized as 2:1:2, where the center section slightly projects forward. Moulded stone string courses run between the storeys, and the plinth is topped by a stone moulding. The first and second storey windows are all 12-pane sashes, while the second storey also features 6-pane sashes, all set in plain reveals with projecting stone sills and flat gauged arches. One window on the first storey is blank.

The central door, accessed by two stone steps, has six sunk panels adorned with ornate applied mouldings. The wood Doric doorcase includes plain reveals, fluted pilasters, and a triglyph frieze with a cornice. A high white brick wall with four plain pilasters connects No. 71 to No. 70 to the south, and between the center pilasters is a plain boarded door with plain reveals and a flat gauged arch.

At the rear, there are two two-storey extensions, one to the south made of white brick and slates, and the other, possibly originally an outbuilding, featuring weatherboarding and 20th-century concrete tiles. The back wall of the main range is constructed of red brick and has a projecting stair wing.

Inside, the extensive cellars feature 18th-century timber ceilings, with many reused timbers, and brick walling with arched recesses. The interior mainly showcases early 19th-century features, with some early 20th-century alterations to the layout. This includes six-panel doors with sunk panels, panelled and moulded internal window shutters, and moulded cornices in various styles such as egg-and-dart, Greek key, and paterae. One upper fireplace has an eared architrave, and three upper rooms feature raised 'duck's nest' grates. A winder stair leading to the attic storey has stick balusters, open bracketed strings, and moulded handrails.