NHER 855 (Building record) - 58, St Benedicts Street (The Plough Inn)

February 1954. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Public house. 16th century rear range and early 17th century street range.
Early medieval stone quoins in 17th-century Little Plough yard range. Flint rubble. Brick. Rendered street front. Pantile roofs. L-shape plan. Two storeys.
Street range:- Three first floor windows. 19th-century pub front...First floor sash windows...Brewery pub-name plaster ovals with swags between windows. Paired bracket cornice. Two gable dormers with casement windows and barge-boards.
Rear range:- Two first floor windows…Eleven-light casement window at ground floor."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current details.
Amended by H. Hamilton (HES), 8 November 2019 and P. Watkins (HES), 16 March 2021.

1979. Norwich Survey.
Two storey L-shape block with attics. Back range appears to predate the street range. Flint rubble build with very thick walls. Rear range possibly dates to around 1580. Street range possibly dates to around 1650. 19th century cellar.
See (S2).
T.E. Miller (NLA) 26 May 2004.

This building is amongst those listed in thesis (S3), which considers the 13th- to 17th-century buildings of Norwich. It is recorded slightly differently to the Listing Description summarised above. The street range is described as a 17th-century, two-storey building with flint rubble walls and a 20th-century pub front. The single-cell rear range, at right angles to the street, has access from a yard and dates to the 16th century. It has flint rubble walls and although the gable has been rebuilt in brick the large chimney stack may be an original feature. There is a large frieze window at ground floor level. Beyond this range is a another block with flint rubble walls. This has a 17th-century window in its gable but stone quoins at the junction with the 16th-century range suggest 13th-century origins.
P. Watkins (HES), 16 March 2021.

See also documentary history (S4) in file which states that the plaster front dates from 1926.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 16 March 2021.