NHER 26020 (Building record) - 42 to 48 (even) Bethel Street

Nos 42 to 48 (even) Bethel Street.

1986. Listed Grade II*
Listing Description:
Shop and printing works. Late 19th century with 15th-century undercroft. Shop and printing works: red brick ground stucco and roughcast first floor. Plain tile roof, two storeys. Three bays plus carriage entry. 20th century shop front to left. Four-light mullion and transom windows at first floor and 'Elizabethan' stucco decoration. Heavy box cornice. Four dormers. Undercroft beneath No.48. Undercroft: brick. Pointed barrel-vault. Section with apex parallel to road. Large side-chamber with chamfered brick and extending beneath pavement. Smaller chamber on north wall. 20th century east wall.
The building is grade II listed because of the undercroft, one of an important group within the city walls.
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 28 November 2017.

This undercroft is amongst those listed in thesis (S2), which considers the 13th- to 17th-century buildings of Norwich. It is described as having a pointed barrel-vault with side chambers front and back. It is parallel to, and on the street line.
P. Watkins (HES), 28 November 2017.