The Broadway

The Broadway is a house located in Bury St Edmunds, dating from the early 16th century, with 17th century and mid-19th century rear extensions, and a front that was rebuilt in the 1980s. The building features a timber frame with a red brick front laid in stretcher bond and is topped with old plain tiles.

The exterior is two storeys high with attics and consists of one-and-a-half bays. Each storey has a 16-pane sash window with plain reveals and cement flat arches. There is a flat-headed lead-covered dormer featuring a 2-light casement window. The entrance has a panelled door set in a plain surround topped by a semicircular cement arch, and a raised cement band runs between the storeys just above this arch.

Inside, the building contains the one-bay service end, which was originally jettied, of a house that likely extended further west, predating the current structure. The front ground storey room, which was formerly divided into two, has an exposed ceiling with heavy unchamfered joists, a chamfered main cross-beam with empty mortices for studding, and a blocked stair-trap. There is evidence of a now-blocked inserted corner fireplace. The service end partition wall mainly consists of replacement timbers, while the partition wall to the east appears to be part of No. 8, featuring a 20th century fireplace. The half-bay on the west now serves as an entrance corridor with stairs and seems linked to No. 6; on the upper storey, the end of a chamfered beam protrudes through the party wall.