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SWAFFHAM
TF8208 MARKET PLACE 809-1/8/73 (East side) 29/03/50 Nos.89 AND 91 Montpellier House (No.89) and Western House (No.91) (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (East side) No.91 Western House) (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (East side) No.89 Montpelier House)
GV II
House, now divided into 2. c1750, divided late C20. Knapped flint with gault-brick dressings; roof of black-glazed pantiles. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys in 7-window range. Centre 3 bays broken forward and defined by rusticated brick quoins, repeated to outside angles of elevation. Central C20 glass door. Semicircular porch on 2 fluted Roman Doric columns and pilasters, Greek key meander in frieze, plain entablature. Fenestration of 6/6 horned sashes to ground and first floors, 3/3 horned sashes to attic floor, all with gauged skewback arches, 2 right-hand ground- and attic-floor windows without horns. Second doorway in extreme right bay: timber doorcase with consoles supporting hood. Bracketed eaves cornice. Gabled roof with stone coping to gable parapets and internal gable-end stacks north and south. Single-storey extension to north fitted with bowed plate-glass display window. INTERIOR: main staircase removed. Secondary stick-baluster staircase to south (Western House), under which is re-used mid C17 small-framed panelling. First-floor centre room has marble fire insert and an eared timber surround: acanthus decoration, imbricated pulvinated frieze interrupted by shell ornament in high relief; eared overmantel with corner rosettes beneath a broken pediment containg bust. Large-framed wall panelling with meander decoration. Window surrounds with reel and bobbin mouldings and acanthus carving. Plaster cornice with dentils, egg-and-dart moulding and modillions. No.91, Western House was listed on 10.1.51.
Listing NGR: TF8199908910
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0175 IOE Records taken by Peter C Bewes; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Peter C. Bewes. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Bewes, Peter C.
Rights Holder: Bewes, Peter C.
Flint, Pantile, Stuart House, Georgian Monument (By Form), Domestic, Dwelling
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