2, Market Place
2, Market Place, North Walsham, NR28 9BP
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Overview
TG 2830
3/46
MARKET PLACE (south side)
No 2
EXTERIOR; the building is two storeys with an attic level under a steep pantiled roof. Its main elevation on the north is limewashed brick. Within the roof is a sash dormer with glazing bars and a flat roof. There are two sash windows at first floor level, also with glazing bars. On the ground floor there is a projecting wooden shop front with interior Doric columns at its entrance. The shopfront contains glazing with mullions and transoms and shallow arched heads with spandrel detailing. There is a separate domestic entrance to the left-hand side of the shopfront.
INTERIOR; the interior contains stop chamfered beams.
Nos 1 to 4 Market Place (consecutive) form a group along with No 2 Yarmouth Road.
NGR: TG2838230218
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1039504
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 2, Market Place
- Statutory Address:
- 2, Market Place, North Walsham, NR28 9BP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1039504
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 2, Market Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, Market Place, North Walsham, NR28 9BP
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 2, Market Place, North Walsham, NR28 9BP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Walsham
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 28382 30218
Summary
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 26 June 2024 to amend the description and reformat the text to current standards.
TG 2830
3/46
MARKET PLACE (south side)
No 2
EXTERIOR; the building is two storeys with an attic level under a steep pantiled roof. Its main elevation on the north is limewashed brick. Within the roof is a sash dormer with glazing bars and a flat roof. There are two sash windows at first floor level, also with glazing bars. On the ground floor there is a projecting wooden shop front with interior Doric columns at its entrance. The shopfront contains glazing with mullions and transoms and shallow arched heads with spandrel detailing. There is a separate domestic entrance to the left-hand side of the shopfront.
INTERIOR; the interior contains stop chamfered beams.
Nos 1 to 4 Market Place (consecutive) form a group along with No 2 Yarmouth Road.
NGR: TG2838230218
History
North Walsham is a medieval market town that grew wealthy from the trade of wool and cloth. The town was largely rebuilt following a fire in 1600 but remained a significant market centre into the Industrial Revolution.
Number 2 Market Place dates to the early C17, the period following the fire of 1600. In the mid-C19 a shopfront was added, and the building was recorded as being a house and shop, possibly for a saddlery. In the 1980s, the basement was converted from storage to retail use. The shop front originally differed from the left to the right-hand side but has been made completely uniform since 2016.
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 26 June 2024 to amend the description and reformat the text to current standards.
TG 2830
3/46
MARKET PLACE (south side)
No 2
GV
II
EXTERIOR; the building is two storeys with an attic level under a steep pantiled roof. Its main elevation on the north is limewashed brick. Within the roof is a sash dormer with glazing bars and a flat roof. There are two sash windows at first floor level, also with glazing bars. On the ground floor there is a projecting wooden shop front with interior Doric columns at its entrance. The shopfront contains glazing with mullions and transoms and shallow arched heads with spandrel detailing. There is a separate domestic entrance to the left-hand side of the shopfront.
INTERIOR; the interior contains stop chamfered beams.
Nos 1 to 4 Market Place (consecutive) form a group along with No 2 Yarmouth Road.
NGR: TG2838230218
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 222790
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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