20, Market Place
20, Market Place, North Walsham, NR28 9BP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1039513
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 20, Market Place
- Statutory Address:
- 20, Market Place, North Walsham, NR28 9BP
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12971/09
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1039513
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 20, Market Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, 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:
- 20, 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 28256 30224
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.
Located on the south side of the ancient market place, the building at Number 20 is likely to be early C19 in origin and is recorded on the 1842 Tithe apportionment as a house a shop. It has changed use several times and the shop front was replaced in the first half of the C20.
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 22 July 2024 to amend the description and reformat the text to current standards.
TG 2930
1/56
MARKET PLACE (south side)
No 20
GV
II
EXTERIOR: the principal elevation faces north and is three storeys high. The roof is pitched, with a chimney to the left side with dentil cornice. There is an eaves cornice under the pantile roof. The frontage is covered in painted stucco, with a rusticated first floor and flank pilasters which extend to the second floor. There is a second floor plat band. There are two sash windows at first and second floor levels, with centre glazing bars only. The windows are under stuccoed flat arches with keys on the first-floor level.
On the ground floor the wooden shop front is glazed with a central glazed recessed door and tiled stall riser.
Numbers 13 to 22 Market Place (consecutive) form a group.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 222800
- 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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