Colman House

COLMAN HOUSE, POTTERGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219739
Date first listed:
26-Feb-1954
List Entry Name:
Colman House
Statutory Address:
COLMAN HOUSE, POTTERGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219739
Date first listed:
26-Feb-1954
List Entry Name:
Colman House
Statutory Address 1:
COLMAN HOUSE, POTTERGATE

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:
COLMAN HOUSE, POTTERGATE

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 22707 08729

Details

TG 2208 NE POTTERGATE (north side) 15/619 26.2.54. Colman House GV II Former house, converted into factory and under restoration at the time of re-survey. Early C17. Heightened, refaced and extended in the late C18. Red brick and pantile roof. 3 storeys. 5 symmetrical bays plus one bay to right-hand side. Central door with rusticated surround, pulvinated frieze and small flat hood. Rusticated pilasters. Sash windows throughout with glazing bars and flat rubbed brick arches with Keystone. Pilasters flanking first floor central window. Moulded brick cornice. Fine Cl7 stone fireplace surround with carved spandrels at first floor. R. Smith and A. Carter, "Function and Site: Aspects of Norwich Buildings". Vernacular Architecture, Vol. 14, 1983.

Listing NGR: TG2270708729

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
229390
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, Vol. 14, (1983)

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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