NHER 13371 (Monument record) - Site of medieval or post medieval house, Laughing Image Corner

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Summary

The site of a probable 17th century house, the façade of which had two niches with a statue in each. The name 'Laughing Image Corner' derives from the appearance of the statues; it and the statues may all have been medieval. The house does not survive.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG50NW
Civil Parish GREAT YARMOUTH, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

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Laughing Image Corner took its name from two statues in niches, on a building demolished 1912. Whole area now flattened.
Information from (S1).

18th century print in collection sold in 1995 (and believed to be from Reverend Neville Rolfe's copy of Blomefield (S2), reproduced in (S3) in file) shows a flat fronted house with a large mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor, and a sash window on the upper floor, with a figure in a niche to each side of it. The figures look like a man and a woman, but are indistinctly drawn. A similar house is attached and may have been part of the same building; to each side of these are houses of slightly later appearance, but the date of all would, on this evidence appear to be late 17th century. The figures cannot be dated from this print.
E. Rose (NLA), 26 June 1995.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • --- Serial: Blomefield, F.. 1805-1810. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk.. Volume Unknown.
  • <S1> Archive: Bolingbroke family. 1300's-1960. Bolingbroke Collection. Norfolk Record Office.
  • <S3> Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1995. Pictures of everyday life two centuries ago. 24 June.

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Record last edited

Jan 15 2016 3:57PM

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