NHER 26099 (Building record) - 34 and 36 Elm Hill

34 and 36 Elm Hill.

February 1954. Listed, Grade II*.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Former use not known, now shop and house. 16th century with mid-18th-century remodelling. Ground floor of flint with stone and brick dressings; first floor rendered. Pantile roof with one ridge and two gable-end chimneys (part rendered and repaired). Two storeys, attic and cellar; first floor jetty. Nine first-floor windows. Ground floor is in two parts flanking a carriage arch, with stone quoins and simple beaded wooden surround, leading to Roaches Court...Fascia cornice; stone kneeler to right gable. Four flat-roofed dormers with glazing bar sashes. One skylight. Mid 18th century. Interior of No 34 includes fireplaces and arched recesses. Late 16th-century moulded ceiling beams on first floor. Undercroft: Brick. Pointed barrel vaulted chamber extending beneath the pavement from an 18th-century cellar, possibly remains of larger undercroft."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 2 January 2024.

June 1980. Building Survey.
34 and 36 Elm Hill both examined as part of Norwich Survey.
The eastern half of the building (No 36) is a two-storey block with a flint-rubble ground floor and a timber-framed and jettied first floor. The rear wall of the first floor is also timber framed. The end gable is flint rubble with a corbelled projection for the jetty. The present room arrangement is of early 19th-century date. There is an 18th-century brick cellar with a pointed barrel vault projecting under the street line, with a chamfered brick entrance arch. The first floor has early 19th-century sash windows. The roof is of three-bay, double-purlin construction with wind braces and collars.
No 34 is an early 16th-century block along the street. It has a flint rubble ground floor at front and back and flint rubble gables rising the full height. The first floor is timber framed and jettied at front and back. The modern stair is on the site of and incorporates part of the original stair turret. The ground floor interior has been gutted. The front has Georgian windows reusing stone jambstones from former windows of a different arrangement. The first floor contains one long room with an original battened ceiling. The ceiling has elaborately moulded battens and ties, with an irregular series of arch braces, all lost. There are 18th-century sash windows. The roof has double purlins with wind braces for the upper purlin and cambered collars on the principals. The street façade has a jetty concealed by an 18th-century fascia that does not represent the true line of the jetty, which can be judged from the finely-moulded end gable corbels that supported the flint rubble gable walls.
See record forms (S2) for further details and copies of photographs.
P. Watkins (HES), 2 January 2024.

The building is amongst those included in thesis (S3), which considers the 13th- to 17th-century buildings of Norwich. It is described as a long, two-storeyed building of 16th-century date that is now two separate properties. It is noted that both halves of the building have 18th-century rear extensions.
P. Watkins (HES), 2 January 2024.

See also architectural drawings (S4) in file.