NORWICH UNION OFFICES

NORWICH UNION OFFICES, 8, SURREY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1210553
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:: NORWICH UNION OFFICES
Statutory Address:: NORWICH UNION OFFICES, 8, SURREY STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1210553
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:: NORWICH UNION OFFICES
Statutory Address 1:: NORWICH UNION OFFICES, 8, SURREY STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: NORWICH UNION OFFICES, 8, SURREY 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 23048 08147

Details

TG 2308 SW SURREY STREET (east side) 23/837 5.6.72 No. 8 (Norwich Union Offices) GV I Office. 1903-4 by G. J. Skipper. Clipsham Stone. Roof not visible. Set back from street line with single-storey projecting wings. Neo-Baroque style. 2 storeys outer bays and 3 storeys centre bays. 5 bays: A:B:B:B:A. Central door with semi-circular fanlight having fine wrought-ironwork and rusticated arch with swags and shield. Mullion and transom windows throughout: those at first floor tall with pedimented surround. Rusticated ground floor with rough-hewn quoins which continue part way up the first floor. Paired end, and dividing Ionic columns across centre bays supporting pediment. The single-storey wings having balustrading with urns and frontal niches with the statues of the Right Reverend William Talbot and Sir Samuel Bignold. Stone balustrading in front of the building with festooned circular gateposts with urns. Extremely fine marbled interior and panelled boardroom. 'Font' in centre of main hall is part of the original central heating system and still used. C16 glass from Surrey House in former Solicitor's Office on the first floor . Fine Adam style fireplace (reputedly from Surrey House) in first floor committee room.

Listing NGR: TG2304808147

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Legacy System number:: 229614
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.