The Market Tavern Public House

The Market Tavern Public House, formerly known as The Waggon Inn, is located on Risbygate Street in Bury St Edmunds. This building, which dates back to the 19th century on the front, has a 16th and 17th-century interior. It features a timber-framed structure that was once jettied, now fronted in painted brick with 20th-century pantiles on the roof.

The exterior is two storeys high, with attics and cellars. It has a three-window range, with 16-pane sash windows set in plain reveals. The ground floor windows are placed in shallow segmental-arched recesses, and the central doorway is located in a semicircular arched recess. There are two segmental-headed dormers featuring two-light small-paned casement windows. A long wing extends from the rear of the building.

Inside, the front range consists of two bays with a central cross entry bay. To the left and right of the entry, the main beams are adorned with multiple roll-mouldings and cresting above, along with running leaf carving on the soffit and run-off stops. The joists also have ogee and roll-mouldings with run-off stops. In the cross-entry, the main beam features roll-mouldings, and the joists have double roll mouldings. On the left side of the entry, the studs of the partition wall are exposed, revealing an original doorway with missing spandrels and traces of a roll-moulded surround. Two later doorways have been added. Mouldings and cresting continue around the left room. A chimney stack on the rear wall has a plain lintel and a rounded back to the brickwork. The room to the right of the entry has a large rebuilt gable-end stack with a flat lintel, which is moulded on the soffit. The 17th-century rear range has some plain ceiling beams exposed, while the upper storey is reported to have no exposed framing.