NHER 30602 (Building record) - Nos 12,14 and 16 Church Street

Now Abbey View and Abbey House annexes to the Abbey Hotel.

December 1950. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Three houses now forming one communicating annex to The Abbey Hotel. 16th-century origins with many alterations and 18th-century brick skin. Otherwise timber-framed with machine tile roofs.
No 12 of two storeys in three bays. Door to left within glazed timber porch. To right is a late 18th-century bay with glazing bars to its casements. Moulded platband between storeys...Timber modillion eaves cornice below bell-based gabled roof. Internal gable-end stack to west. Later two-storey gabled cross wing to rear.
Nos 14-16 of two storeys. Panelled doors to right and left, the former with a reeded doorcase, the latter with a panelled doorcase...Timber modillion eaves cornice below bell-based gabled roof of lower pitch than No 12. Central ridge stack with triple diamond flues. Internal gable-end stack to west.
INTERIOR. East wall of No 12 has exposed studwork with a blocked door implying existence of former range to its east. Ground floor west room with multiple-rolled early 16th-century bridging beams and wall plate. No 14 with a wide fireplace, chamfered bridging beams and plain joists. No 16 with a similar exposed fireplace and boxed bridging beams."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
E. Rose (NLA), 11 May 1994. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 March 2022.

December 2013. Field Observation.
Inspection of Nos 14 and 16 with prospective purchaser on behalf of South Norfolk Council.
No 12 is a separate building in the row and was not part of this inspection. Nos 14 and 16 were originally a single house with an off-centre axial stack. Typical 17th-century stack shaft of three intelocking diagonally set shafts. Late 17th-century added gable-end stack to west. Fine late 18th-century façade of brick with modern plain tiled roof covering. The largely symmetrical façade has a modillion cornice and four two light first floor windows with metal casements and decorative pulls. The ground has three doorways: the easternmost, corresponding to a probable extension, has an early 19th century reeded doorcase with corner paterae. The other two doorways are adjacent with one blocked. Western doorway has a late 18th centruy doorcase with fluted frieze. Two large ground floor windows with cambered soffits to skewback arches with Georgian three-light mullion and transom windows with single metal casements. The blocked doorway was probably the original entrance into the lobby. It aslo has a skewback arch with cambered soffit. Elements of 17th-century timber frame survive especially in rear wall and include the roof with arch-braced tie beams and jowled posts surviving. Roof not inspected but brief look suggests the possibility of queen posts. Lobby entrance type plan extended to the east when subdivided to form two houses. The extension contains an early 19th-century stair with stick balusters and open string. Fine early 19th centrury extension to rear with single sash window with glazing bars and French windows below with margin glazing. The building started life as a farmhouse which indicates the rural status of the area in the 17 th century despite being on the edge of the former abbey precinct. It was sub divided and extended into two or more dwellings in circa 1800 when it was given its new façade.
S. Heywood (HES), 20 December 2013