The Guildhall
The Guildhall, Guildhall Hill
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1187384
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- The Guildhall, Guildhall Hill
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1187384
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Guildhall, Guildhall Hill
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:
- The Guildhall, Guildhall Hill
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 22920 08560
Details
This list entry has been subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/11/2018
TG 2208 NE
15/367
GUILDHALL HILL (south side)
The Guildhall
(Formerly listed under Market Place)
26.2.54
I
Former Guildhall, now Magistrates Court. C15 onwards with major additions in 1861 by Thomas Barry. Quaternary and Quarry flint with Lincolnshire Limestone, Bath Stone and brick dressings. Low-pitch lead covered roofs. Island site.
South facade: two and three storeys. Six bays with the right-hand two bays recessed and dropped. C19 two-storied additions across four and half bays with central entrance having two-centre arch on attached columns in buttressed tower. Three bays each side of tower with fortified ground-floor windows and traceried triangular arch windows at first floor. Re-used C16 doorway at extreme left-side. Two-and three-light windows in medieval wall with traceried heads. Crenellated parapet with C19 turret at east end.
Fine moulded timber ceiling at first floor east with pendants. Decorated linenfold panelling and carved bench-ends in same room. Remains of medieval staircase arrangement immediately west of panelled room. Three bay twin-aisled brick-built undercroft beneath the east end of the building. Three large barrel-vaulted side chambers beneath the western half of the building. Formerly Scheduled as an Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: TG2292008560
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 229121
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 02 March 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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