Maddermarket Theatre

MADDERMARKET THEATRE, 6, ST JOHN'S ALLEY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1051849
Date first listed:
26-Feb-1954
List Entry Name:
Maddermarket Theatre
Statutory Address:
MADDERMARKET THEATRE, 6, ST JOHN'S ALLEY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1051849
Date first listed:
26-Feb-1954
List Entry Name:
Maddermarket Theatre
Statutory Address 1:
MADDERMARKET THEATRE, 6, ST JOHN'S ALLEY

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MADDERMARKET THEATRE, 6, ST JOHN'S ALLEY

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 22910 08705

Details

TG 2208 NE ST. JOHN'S ALLEY (west side) 15/792 26.2.54 No. 6. (Maddermarket Theatre) GV II Former Strangers Chapel, now theatre. Circa 1800 with C20 additions. Red and painted brick with 'Tudor' decoration. Pantile roofs. L-shape plan with C20 extension to left-side. Central and right-side doors in single- storey full-width projection. Oriel window and gable above right-side door. C20 entrance on left-return with 8 steps up. Single-storey workshops in right-hand wing with 2 plain doors, casement window and loading door with fanlight. 2-storey end to workshop wing with side door, recessed ground-floor window and 3 first-floor casement windows. Single-pitch roof. 2 storey, 2 bay extension north along lane with casement windows.

Listing NGR: TG2291008705

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Legacy System number:
229566
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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