NHER 26030 (Building record) - 2 Charing Cross

No 2 Charing Cross.
Previously also recorded (erroneously) as NHER 48258.

1972. Listed Grade II*.
Listing description:
Former use unknown, now shop and museum store with 15th-century undercroft.
Shop and museum store:- Rendered timber frame at first and second floors. Pantile roof. Corner site. Three storeys, jetty at first floor. Six bays to Charing Cross, two bays to Maddermarket. 20th-century picture windows at ground floor. Loading doors at extreme right. Sash windows with glazing bars and simple moulded surrounds. First floor loading-doors in third bay from right with glazing bars, simple moulded surround and flat hood. Plain box cornice. Hipped roof.
Undercroft:- brick. Two bays with single order diagonal ribs. West bay with hollow chamfered ribs and circular side chamber away from street. 20th-century east wall.
The building is graded II* because of the undercroft, one of an important group within the City Walls.
Information from (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 November 2017.

This building and its undercroft are amongst those described in thesis (S2), which considers the 13th- to 17th-century buildings of Norwich.
P. Watkins (HES), 27 November 2017.