Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW GUILDHALL STREET
639-1/15/391 (West side)
12/07/72 No.69
The Black Boy Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
GUILDHALL STREET
(West side)
No.69
Black Boy Inn)

GV II

Public house. C17, with C19 and C20 alterations.
Timber-framed; jettied along the street frontage; faced in C19
red brick on the ground storey and with tile-hanging in
alternate bands of plain and scalloped tiles to the 1st
storey. Plaintiled roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and cellar. An internal
chimney-stack has 4 saw-tooth shafts on a rectangular base
with a front panel. 3 windows to the 1st storey: all 3-light
early C20 casements with a single horizontal glazing bar in a
heavy flush frame. 4 sash windows to the ground storey, all
with a single vertical glazing bar in plain reveals with
moulded heads below the jetty. 3 gabled dormers with plain
bargeboards and hanging finials have single bar 2-light
casement windows. Entrance door with 2 leaves in a plain wood
surround with a rectangular fanlight flanked by 2 shaped
brackets below the jetty. A small timber-framed wing at the
rear and a larger extension of 1935.
INTERIOR: modernised brick-lined cellar. Frame in 4 bays. Most
internal timbers are covered; chamfered main beams only are
exposed on the ground storey. The bay at the south end is an
open carriage entrance with an exposed ceiling: chamfered main
beam with triangle stops, joists set flat, widely spaced.

Listing NGR: TL8526063919

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Black Boy Public House official website
• Wikidata Q26645526

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)