NHER 26185 (Building record) - 13, 15 and 17 St Giles Street

13-17 (odd) St Giles Street.

The presence of an undercroft beneath this building is noted in (S1), a local press article published in 1939.

June 1972. Listed, Grade II*
Listing Description excerpt:
Former use unknown, now shops with 15th- and early 16th-century undercrofts.
Shops:- Early 16th century with 18th-century rear additions. Rendered timber frame. Pantile roof. Two storey, first floor jettied. Seven irregularly spaced first floor 18th-century windows. Three 19th-century shopfronts, each with side door. Off-centre carriage entry... Three gabled dormers. Undercrofts:- Brick. Two bays ranged at right angles to the street line with heavy, double order diagonal ribs, single cross-rib between bays and shallow side chambers. A 19th-century wall now divides the two bays. Barrel-vaulted passages connect the undercroft to a later chamber at the west end of the buildings having a pointed barrel-vault profile at right-angles to the street line. The latter is one of the very few undercrofts contemporary with the building above.
The building is graded II* because of the undercrofts, two of an important group within the City walls."
Information from (S2)
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S2) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 March 2021.

This building and its undercroft are amongst those listed in thesis (S3), which considers the 13th- to 17th-century buildings of Norwich. Nos 13-17 St Giles Street is described as a two-storeyed, 16th-century building with flint rubble ground floor walls and timber-framed front and back at first floor level. A lean-to was erected against the rear wall in the 17th century and further extensions were added in the 18th and 19th centuries.
A barrel-vaulted undercroft beneath the western end of the building connects, via a short passage, to a 15th-century, two-bay undercroft that is also at right angles to the street.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 March 2021.