NHER 26191 (Building record) - 46, St Giles Street

No 46 St Giles Street.

June 1972. Listed, Grade II*.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Former house, now hostel. 19th century. Rendered brickwork, plinth. Roof not visible. Three storeys. Five bays. Central six-panel door with rectangular fanlight having 'Adam' motif metalwork tracery and attached fluted columns supporting frieze and simple hood....Block modillion cornice. Beneath the building and partly destroyed by the 19th-century cellar are the wall piers of a 15th-century brick-built undercroft.
The building is graded II* for the undercroft remains which forms part of an important group within the City Walls."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 17 March 2021.

1970s or 1980s. Building Survey.
Examined as part of Norwich Survey.
18th-century three-storey brick block with earlier cellars. Interior gutted and rebuilt in the 20th century. Cellar contains the remains of a vaulted undercroft with side chambers extending under the street, possibly dating to the 16th century.
See record form (S2) for further details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 January 2018.

This building and its undercroft is amongst those listed in thesis (S3), which considers the 13th- to 17th-century buildings of Norwich. The undercroft (wrongly listed as lying beneath No 48 St Giles Street) is described as the remains of a pointed barrel-vault with two side chambers surviving in the north wall that extend beneath the pavement. It is positioned parallel to, and on the street line.
P. Watkins (HES), 23 January 2018.

July 2009. Building Survey.
Examination of the cellars beneath Nos 46 and 48 St Giles Street (NHER 608).
This investigation demonstrated that the cellars which contain medieval elements do not extend beyond the footprint of the listed buildings and therefore do not extend below the any of the modern extensions.
See report (S4) for further details. This survey is also noted in (S5).
P. Watkins (HES), 23 January 2018.