NHER 47984 (Building record) - 81 and 83 Ber Street

Nos 81 and 83 Ber Street.

June 1972. Listed Grade II.
Listing Description Excerpt:
"Shop and café. 18th century. Red brick and pantile roof. Three storeys. Three bays. Shopfronts to each side of central passage. Sash windows throughout with glazing bars except at first floor right-side. Flat rubbed brick arches at first floor. Second floor windows beneath bracket cornice."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 July 2015. Amended by P. Beers (HES), 21 February 2020.

1970s or 1980s. Building Survey.
Examined as part of Norwich Survey.
Three-storey 19th-century block, red brick, with flush framed sashes and indented cornice. Passage, which is irregular in plan, reveals that the street block is very narrow.
See record form (S2) for further details and copy of photograph of front elevation.
P. Watkins (HES), October 2017.

November 1994. Building Survey.
Three storeys plus cellar, with a slightly off-centre passageway to Chapel Loke at the rear of the building. The street range dates from the eighteenth century and the rear range from the nineteenth, although this incorporates substantial remains of a late sixteenth- century building. The sixteenth-century building is timber- framed and there is evidence that the framing may have incorporated diagonal bracing. The first floor ceiling is notable for the quadrant chamfer on the beams, which are stopped with an ogee plus stepped and tabled decoration, of which the only other known example is in Strangers Hall (NHER 606). A cellar exists beneath the eighteenth-century range. A late sixteenth/ early seventeenth- century timber door frame with a moulded and stopped surround is located against a modern brick pier, and is obviously not in situ.
See report (S3) (included in (S4)) for further details.
H. White (NLA), 2 July 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 July 2015.

February-March 1999. Structural Assessment.
Undertaken as part of feasibility study commissioned by Norwich Preservation trust.
The cellar walls are of brick with some flint, and the floor is currently earth but may have originally been brick or pamments. The east wall of the cellar has a coal chute to the south side with a timber lintel. An infilled arch is present at the rear of the cellar and probably originally interconnected with no.81 Ber street. The roof of the building is duo-pitched, and constructed of tiles laid over reed and lime sarking.
See report (S5) (included in (S4)) for further details.
H. White (NLA), 2 July 2009. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 July 2015.