THE LOUIS MARCHESI PUBLIC HOUSE

THE LOUIS MARCHESI PUBLIC HOUSE, 17, TOMBLAND

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1210774
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1976
List Entry Name:: THE LOUIS MARCHESI PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE LOUIS MARCHESI PUBLIC HOUSE, 17, TOMBLAND

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1210774
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1976
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: THE LOUIS MARCHESI PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE LOUIS MARCHESI PUBLIC HOUSE, 17, TOMBLAND

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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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:: THE LOUIS MARCHESI PUBLIC HOUSE, 17, TOMBLAND

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 23310 08887

Details

TG 2308 NW TOMBLAND (west side) 16/892 26.2.76. No. 17. The Louis Marchesi P.H. (formerly listed as the Waggon & Horses P.H.). GV II* Former use unknown, now Public House. C15 undercroft. Late C15 street range with C16 rear addition. C17. C18. alterations, adiitions. Rendered masonry ground floor. Pseudo timber framing covering late C15 timber frame. Plain tiles on street range and pantiles on rear range. Corner site, 'L' shape plan. 2 storey. 3 bay street range with central door and C19 mullion and transome windows with leaded lights. C19 timber-framing on first floor with 9-light mullion and transome windows. The rear ground floor room has a fine early C16 moulded timber ceiling which does not extend the full width of the room, stopping short of the south wall to allow for a passage which is lit by a frieze window. The first floor of the street range has the re- mains of the C15 timber frame with expanded head wall posts, arch braces and cambered ties. C19 roof, but the south gable has a truss embedded into it, showing that the roof had diminished principal rafters, windbracing and large cambered collars. Beneath the rear range is a 2 bay brick built under- croft with heavy, double order diagonal ribs, 2 side and one end chamber. The building is graded II for the undercroft, which forms part of an impor- tant group within the City walls and for the surviving late C15 timber framing.

Listing NGR: TG2331008887

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Legacy System number:: 229672
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.