39 And 41 Market Place / 39-43 Market Place / National Provincial Bank

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SWAFFHAM

TF8109 MARKET PLACE 809-1/5/64 (North side) 10/01/51 Nos.39 AND 41 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (North side) Nos.39-43 (Odd))

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Formerly known as: National Provincial Bank MARKET PLACE. House. c1730-40, on site of early C16 house. Red brick laid in Flemish bond; roof of black-glazed pantiles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and dormer attic. 7-window range. Mid C19 shop front to left of elevation: 4 engaged Roman Doric columns contain a 6-panelled passageway door to left, a 3-panelled double-leaf door in centre and a late C20 display window to right. Remainder of elevation with a late C20 plate-glass shop display window. Seven 6/6 unhorned sashes to first floor, under gauged skewback arches. Timber eaves cornice with modillions. Gabled roof with 2 flat-topped dormers separated by a gabled dormer. 2 left-hand dormers have 3/3 unhorned sashes, the other is blind and painted in imitation. Rebuilt internal gable-end stack to west; C18 ridge stack right of centre. INTERIOR: passageway to left with roll and hollow-moulded joists and wall plates, c1500. Ground floor opened out in C20 but formerly 3 rooms wide, the cornices remaining. First-floor centre room with moulded cornices, 2 blocked doorways into adjoining property (No.41), and large-framed panelling on north wall, partly boarded over. C18 staircase at attic level only: closed string, turned balusters and moulded handrail.

Listing NGR: TF8191709056

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0175 IOE Records taken by Peter C Bewes; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Peter C. Bewes. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project