NHER 60526 (Monument record) - Remains of mid-19th century houses, Paxton's Terrace, Coburg Street and site of Dilke Place

May-July 2012. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks associated with construction of industrial unit.
The earliest deposit encountered on this site was a thick layer of natural alluvium. Sealing the alluvium was topsoil relating to agricultural use of the site during the medieval period, and later post-medieval garden soils. Walls and floors of 19th century origin were recorded, and relate to buildings fronting Paxton Terrace and the west side of Dilke Place.
No archaeological finds were recorded.
See report (S1) for further information.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2013.90).
A. Cattermole (HES), 15 October 2014. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 May 2019.

In the mid-19th century this area was known as 'Lower Canada' (the origins of this name are unclear), and it originally formed part of a much larger field which was bought by the East Anglian Railway Company from the Corporation. By late 1849 a number of pieces of land had been identified as surplus to the requirements of the railway company and in November 1849 these were sold, and again sold on in 1851 to builder Robert Mott who was required to lay out streets and sewers. Local architects Cruso and Maberley planned the street layout and 28 blocks of land for building houses were sold to builders and investors. Virtually nothing remains of this area now, the houses having been demolished in the 1960s under slum clearance procedures.
See (S2) for further information.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 8 May 2019.