NHER 54029 (Building record) - 14 Emorsgate

April 2010. Building survey.
Cottage no. 14 on Emorsgate was a cottage in a row of two and probably contemporary with nos 10 and 12. In the upper floors timber frames survived including a pair of principal posts and evidence for a further pair that have been removed. A tie beam survives in the south east gable-end within a wattle-and-daub wall that divides the cottage from the neighbouring structure. The unusual feature of these posts are that they have no jowls and is of the type that preceded the introduction of the jowl and from a typological perspective should belong to the 13th or 14th century.
See (S1) for further details.
S. Howard (NLA), 29 April 2010.

April 2010. Correspondence.
The house is shown on William Haiwarde's 1591 map of Marshland as being located on the edge of a small green (S2). A 15th century French jetton was recovered from the garden of No. 14 (NHER 29800). To the east of the house a number of saltern mounds have been recorded dating from the 12th to 15th centuries. It is possible that the house may have been contemporary with, and maybe associated with, some of the adjacent salt production sites.
See (S3) for further details.
S. Howard (NLA), 4 May 2010.

September 2010. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks associated with construction of extension.
The excavation revealed deposits of post-medieval origin including foundations of the extant building and the remains of brick and tile floors all probably of 19th to 19th century date. An occupation deposit and later post-medieval brick cistern were also observed. Finds from the excavation included pottery and brick dating from the 16th or late 15th century, animal bone and a 17th century clay pipe.
See report (S4) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2010.207).
S. Howard (HES), 12 April 2011. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 May 2019.