48, ST GILES STREET
48, ST GILES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1051842
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 48, ST GILES STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 48, ST GILES STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1051842
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 48, ST GILES STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 48, ST GILES STREET
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:
- 48, ST GILES STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Norwich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 22664 08576
Details
TG 2208 NE ST. GILES STREET (south side) 15/779 26.2.54 No. 48 GV II* Former house, now hostel with C15 undercroft. Hostel:- C19 Red brick, plinth and black pantile roof. 3 storeys. 7 bays to principal facade, one subsidiary bay to right. The 3 central bays project and have a triangular pediment. Central 4-panel door with rectangular fanlight containing semi-circular metalwork. 2 detached fluted Tuscan columns and 2 pilasters supporting frieze having alternate triglyphs and toxophilic accoutrements. Sash windows throughout with glazing bars and rubbed brick flat arches, those in the outside ground floor bays contained within recessed panels with semi-circular arches. Block modillion cornice. The later right- hand end bay was the entrance to the lecture hall and gymnasion as displayed in plaque above the doorway. First floor bay window above. Undercroft:- C15 brick. 2 bays beneath the right-hand half of the building, parallel to the street line. Each bay has heavy double order diagonal ribs and lighting niches. The building is graded II* for the undercroft which forms part of an important group within the City Walls.
Listing NGR: TG2266408576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 229553
- 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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