General Post Office Museum
GENERAL POST OFFICE MUSEUM, ST ANDREW'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1051892
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1970
- List Entry Name:
- General Post Office Museum
- Statutory Address:
- GENERAL POST OFFICE MUSEUM, ST ANDREW'S STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14077/13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1051892
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- General Post Office Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- GENERAL POST OFFICE MUSEUM, ST ANDREW'S 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:
- GENERAL POST OFFICE MUSEUM, ST ANDREW'S 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 23062 08713
Details
TG 2308 NW ST. ANDREW'S STREET (south side) 16/704 21.9.70 G.P.O. Museum (formerly listed as St. Andrew's former Church Hall. - II* Former house, now museum. C15. Brick and flint rubble ground floor, timber frame with brick infill first floor. Pantile roof. Set back and parallel to street line. 2 storeys, first floor jettied. One bay of former 5-bay house. Carriage entry with arched braces having pierced, carved spandrels supported on carved stone corbels. The west gable has corbelled brickwork at jetty level with squared-flint pattern above. One first floor 4-light frieze window with shallow mouldings on the mullions. One truss, remains of a crown-post roof having moulded base and capital on the crown-post. Contemporary brick-built undercroft with pointed barrel-vault profile with the apex parallel to the street line. A painting by H. Ninham 1848, shows the complete building. Castle museum accession No. 44.89.929. The building is graded II* because of the undercroft, one of an important group within the City Walls. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: TG2306208713
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 229476
- 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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