NHER 26215 (Building record) - 5 and 5A Tombland

Nos 5 and 5A Tombland.
Noted in (S1).

1954. Listed Grade II*.
Listing Description Excerpt:
"House now offices. 18th century. Brick with painted plinth. Roof not visible. Three storeys. Seven first and second floor windows, symmetrical. Door has six raised and fielded panels in panelled reveals. Large hood with Adam-style swag decoration on frieze supported on two pilasters and two Tuscan columns."
Information from (S2).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S2) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 January 2017. Amended by P. Beers (HES), 17 March 2020.

January 1974. Building Survey.
No 5 Tombland recorded by Royal Commission following proposals to demolish a modern single-storey building in yard to rear.
Three-storey front range dates to mid 18th century and has an interior of appropriate style and quality. The stair has twisted balusters and a ramped handrail.
The two-storey plus attic timber-framed rear wing dates to c. 1600. There is a jetty at first floor level and the attics are gabled. This wing projects one and a half bays beyond the rear walls of the front range and it may well be that two full bays survive.
See report (S3) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 16 January 2017.

February 1981. Building Survey.
Examined as part of Norwich Survey.
Large three-storey red brick late Georgian block, one room deep. Almost entirely gutted. Architrave decorated with swags in the Adam style. Complex ground plan due to retention of early rear wing. Original 18th-century features scarce. Wall-in safe in ground floor north room, with tile floor, brick vault and original cast iron door; all potentially contemporary with the street range. A small rear annex is a 19th-century addition.
Rear range at right angles to street dates to around 1600. It is partially obscured by the 18th-century street range. It is a two-storey block with attic dormers, originally without windows. Jetty on first floor over yard to south. Yard façade has a six-light cross-transomed window with quadrant moulded mullions. Victorian plaster ceilings on first floor in style of c. 1540. Roof double butt purlin with straight collars. Stair turret on north façade added along with dormers.
Large 18th-century barrel-vaulted cellar under street range, one back room with re-used door frame of c. 1600.
See record forms (S4) for further details, floor plan, copies of photographs and sketches of architectural elements.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 January 2017.

This building is amongst those listed in thesis (S5), which considers the 13th- to 17th-century buildings of Norwich. The rear range is described as a two-storey 17th-century block with timber-framed first floor front wall and a ground floor façade with six-light window with transom and an adjoining door frame. The 19th-century Tudor-style first-floor ceiling and the cellar with elaborate 17th-century door frame are also noted.
P. Watkins (HES), 16 January 2017.

December 2010. Building Survey.
Examined prior to work to integrate Nos 4 and 5 Tombland.
Despite the strong impression of this building being late 18th century and No 4 (NHER 26214) being early 18th century, they were in fact part of a single development of early 18th century date as revealed by the rear elevations. On the separation of ownerships No 5 undertook re-facing in finely jointed brick work, hence appearing to be of a later date.
See report (S6) for further information.
A. Cattermole (HES), 28 January 2010.