Durley House

Durley House is a house located on Northgate Street in Bury St Edmunds, dating from the early 19th century, with later 19th-century extensions on either side of the front. The front is finished in white brick, while the rear is constructed of red brick, topped with slate roofs featuring paired bracketed eaves soffits.

The house stands two storeys high with a cellar and consists of two parallel ranges. The front features four flat pilasters evenly spaced across the center, with a brick band running between each storey and below the eaves soffit. There are three 12-pane sash windows in plain reveals at the center front. The central entrance is a six-panel door topped with a plain rectangular fanlight and is framed by an Ionic porch with fluted columns.

To the left, the slightly lower extension has a blank wall, while the right extension (formerly No.17A) includes two large-paned sash windows on the upper storey and one on the ground storey. This extension features a four-panel door with glazed top panels, a fanlight with radiating glazing bars set within a semicircular brick arch, and plain reveals. The rear wall is faced in mid-19th-century red brick, likely over an earlier structure, and includes a prominent canted bay on the south side, with 12-pane segmental-headed sash windows in plain reveals.

Inside, the cellar beneath part of the rear range has walls made of kidney flint and stone blocks, while a small extension contains 19th-century wine bins. The main room on the ground floor at the rear boasts a decorative plaster cornice featuring egg-and-dart and bead-and-reel motifs. An extension to the south side of the front, added around 1900, matches the earlier interior style with ornate plaster cornices, effectively doubling the size of the ground floor room to the left of the entrance. The extension to the right of the entrance is simpler in design. The entrance hall features a staircase with stick balusters, bracketed strings, and a wreathed handrail.