NHER 4303 (Building record) - Numbers 6, 7 and 8, Row 111
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
Location
| Map sheet | TG50NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | GREAT YARMOUTH, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
1956. Excavation.
Well in Row 111. Partly excavated by C. Green (NCM) and dated to c.1650.
Described in (S1) as having lain "…in the forecourt of the seventeenth century houses at present being restored by the Ministry of Work". It had a brick lining and although its filling could be entirely removed it paved base was demonstrated to lie at a depth of 1.58 ft [0.48m] OD.
Information from record cards (S2) and (S3). This discovery was also noted in (S4) and (S5).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 March 2022.
Source [1] notes many apotropaic marks on the windows and doors, however he states that after wartime bombing, fragments of many buildings were used to restore these houses, and so these may not all belong here.
E. Rose (NLA) 22 August 1997.
February 1998. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"House, converted to tenements 19th century, roof and upper part damaged by bombing 8 April 1942; now used as a museum. Early 17th-century house extended to the south in the late 17th century, when the east wing was added. Knapped flint and brick. Plain-tiled roofs. Two storeys and dormer attic; four-window range. West front has a central west door in a bolection-moulded doorcase...Gabled roof with two sloping dormers...Internal gable-end stack to north with a single octagonal flue, truncated. Truncated ridge stack right of centre.
INTERIOR: bridging beams with sunk quadrant mouldings are normal. North ground-floor room with 18th-century large-framed panelling. First floor east window with a king mullion. Scheduled Ancient Monument."
Information from (S6).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S6) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 March 2022.
Associated Sources (13)
- --- SNF43 Designation: [unknown]. Ancient Monuments Form. SAM Record. DNF233.
- --- SNF58263 Monograph: Pevsner, N. and Wilson, B. 1997. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. pp 514-515.
- --- SNF59490 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2001. Happiness in hard times. 11 April.
- --- SNF10228 Photograph: JV16.
- --- SNF8310 Publication: St. J. O'Neil, B.H.. 1955. Archaeologia. 95, pp 159-62.
- --- SNF89829 Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Post-Medieval. Yarmouth (Great).
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF6697 Publication: Lambert, J. 1960. The Making of The Broads. p 130.
- <S2> SNF57204 Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 50 NW 42.
- <S3> SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S4> SNF87565 Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1957. Other Archaeological Excavations 1956. Norfolk Research Committee Bulletin. Series 1 No 9 (for 1956) p 2.
- <S5> SNF2259 Serial: 1956. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries. No 3. p 5.
- <S6> SNF48662 Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1245916.
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Record last edited
Mar 15 2022 7:00AM