NHER 15857 (Building record) - Odd Nos 1 to 7 Pople Street

July 1972. Nos 1, 3 and 5 Pole Street Listed Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Three houses in range. Dated 1684, various alterations. Brick with plaintile roofs. No 5 rendered. Two storeys and dormer attic on brick plinth course. Three distinct elements round canted facade. Entry to No 1 and No 3 via 19th-century doors under gabled timber hoods to left of centre element. No 5 with a central panelled door under flat timber hood in centre of the three bays of this section. No 3 of two bays plus doors...with dentil eaves cornice, No 5 with moulded eaves cornice. Gabled roofs, that to No 1 of lower pitch. One gabled dormer to Nos 1 and 3, two hipped dormers to No 5. Shaped west gable head with moulded coping and internal stack. Ridge stack left of centre to No 3, west ridge stack to No 5. Rear with a two-storeyed gabled tower to centre, 19th-century extensions right and a stepped external stack to left. Three with circular section railings to street, No 5 with lattice section cast-iron railings.
INTERIORS. No 1: Very large open fireplace in north-west wall under a plain bressumer, brick firehood over. Chamfered bridging beam with tongue and jewel stops. First-floor bridging beams similar. Blocked windows flank stack at this level. Roof of two tiers butt purlins with arched windbraces in corners. Collars missing. No 3: Front room to ground floor with chamfered bridging beam terminating in tongue and jewel stops. No 3 similar bridging beams to principal first-floor rooms. Sunk quadrant-moulded beam in gabled rear extension. Similar roof as to No 1, but with collars intact. Dormer is inserted. No 5: Bridging beams mostly boxed save for one chamfered beam with jewel stops bearing date 1684. Roof as to No 3, except dormers are original."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 July 2021.

6 March 1980. Field Observation.
Visited by E. Rose (NAU):
Early 18th century brick house following curve of road. Shaped gable to north with clamp irons forming SG; modern chimney on top. Recent dormers and porches. Windows in original style but perhaps altered.
Wymondham Society Building recording group report that next two houses to east, presumably 5 and 7, are structurally part of the same building with a later façade.
The interior could be pre-18th century and the house was built to follow the crescent shape of the road.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 25 November 1986.

15 August 1996. Field Observation.
Visited by E. Rose (NLA):
Confirmed that facade of 1 and 3 is in brickwork with diagonal skintlings (pre 1780) except for between ground floor windows of No 3 where brick is more recent - has a larger recent window been removed? No 5 rendered. No 7 is in fact not structurally part of the building, it is a separate house with a mid 19th century white brick front covering two rooms and central passage, the rooms with boxed spine beams. To right is carriage arch crossed by beam with tongue stops resting at west end on post in brick partition wall. Rear (north) wall has wallplate and pegged
studs at east end - west end is hidden by early 19th century extension with Gothick window. Details suggest No 7 has a hidden core or remnants of 17th century or earlier date also.
Compiled by E. Rose (NLA), 22 August 1996.