NHER 40621 (Building record) - Dial House (formerly Nostradomus), King Street

January 1999. Visit.
Hall house, probably of around 1500 with two inserted stacks and upper floor of around 1600. The three cell plan may be an alteration of the same date. Raised 18th century, reroofed 19th century. Further investigation suggested this is quite an early building, originally two cell with two braced queenpost trusses across the main hall
See report (S1) in file. The observations made at this time are also summarised in (S2).
E. Rose (NLA), 25 January 1999.

16 October 2003. Building survey.
Five-bay timber framed building possibly dating to the late fifteenth century, with floors inserted in the late sixteenth century. The front of the house is rendered, and has nineteenth century sash windows.
According to (S3) the site was used as a tannery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
See report and photographs (S4) in file for details.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 15th July 2004.

Previously NHER 9200 context 73.

This seems to have been the prototype of other buildings in New Buckenham apparently adapted mainly for storage or other commercial purposes. It is probably the house formerly Thomas Undyrwode's on which James Roberdes paid landgable in 1542. Undyrwode was a housewright. Roberde's widow allowed the tenement to become 'waste next the street' in 1561 and the consequent repair might give a date for the insertion of the floors and internal divisions. From the early 17th to the early 19th century the property included a tanyard.
See (S5).
M. Dennis (NLA), 11 May 2006.