Number 84 And Attached Railings

Number 84 is a house located on Southgate Street in Bury St Edmunds, dating from the 18th century, though it likely has an older core. The building is constructed of red brick and features a hipped tiled roof with a modillion eaves cornice. A high plinth runs across the front of the house but stops short at the north end, indicating a join in the brickwork. The north gable wall displays bands of stretcher bond in a darker red brick.

The house has two storeys, attics, and cellars. All windows on both storeys are 12-pane sashes set in flush cased frames, with those on the left of the entry spaced more widely. There are three flat-headed dormers with 2-light small-paned casement windows on the front slope of the roof. The central entrance features a 6-panel door, with the top two panels glazed, framed by a wood doorcase with panelled pilasters and reveals, topped with a fret dentilled frieze and pediment.

On the rear wall, near the north end, there is a section made of flint and stone blocks that does not appear to relate to the current structure. A separate early 19th-century two-storey red brick rear range is roofed parallel to the front. Attached to the north-east corner of the front is a section of cast-iron garden railings with fleur-de-lys heads, set on a low brick plinth.

Inside, the flint and brick-lined cellar contains two niches with reset arched heads and moulded spandrels, which may have originated from the former Chapel of St Saviour nearby. The house features Georgian fittings in most rooms, including a fully panelled drawing room to the right of the entrance, which has a fret cornice and an 18th-century fireplace surround with a fluted architrave and an ornate central motif. At the north end of this room, a small extension has a long sash window with internal panelled shutters, marked by a boxed-in ceiling beam and fluted Ionic pilasters. To the left of the entrance, there is a fireplace with a bolection-moulded surround and a dentil cornice. The late 18th to early 19th-century staircase has closed strings, turned balusters, and a plain ramped handrail, while the boarded attics are located above. The rear range includes a panelled room on the ground storey.