Bridewell Museum
BRIDEWELL MUSEUM, BRIDEWELL ALLEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1280532
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Bridewell Museum
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDEWELL MUSEUM, BRIDEWELL ALLEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1280532
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Bridewell Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDEWELL MUSEUM, BRIDEWELL ALLEY
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:
- BRIDEWELL MUSEUM, BRIDEWELL ALLEY
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 23109 08693
Details
TG 2308 NW BRIDEWELL ALLEY (east side) 16/117 26.2.54 Bridewell Museum GV I Former house, now museum. C15 with C18 and C19 alterations. Flint rubble. Knapped flint with stone dressings to north facade. Brick including north wall plinth. Pantile roofs. L-shape plan. North facade:- 2 storeys above plinth and undercrofts. 5 widely spaced first floor windows. 5 paired, 2-centre arch lights with dripstone and chamfered jambs in stone. C18 entry at extreme left with 2-centre brick arch and dripcourse. Re-used mediaeval brick jambs. C20 part glazed doors. First floor windows each with 2 moulded stone ogee arches with mouchette spandrels within square frame. The dripcourse extends down to the tracery springing and continues into stringcourse. Simple C19 box cornice with brick kneelers. The facade was built in 2 phases with the building break between the 2nd and 3rd windows from the right. South facade:- C18 brick facing. 2 storeys plus undercroft. 5 bays. Central panelled door with Doric surround having open pediment. Sash windows throughout with glazing bars and brick segmental arches. West wall of former hall range:- C18 brick facing. 2 storeys plus undercroft. 4 bays. Sash windows throughout with glazing bars and brick segmental arches. Pair of service doors at north end of former hall with chamfered stone jambs and moulded 2-centre arches and remains of dripmould. 2 brick barrel-vaults on ground floor at east end of north range. Extensive series of brick built undercrofts:- heavily built double-order diagonal and cross-ribs with wall arches beneath north range. 3 piers support 10 compartments of quadrapartite vaulting with complex rib patterns beneath former hall. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument. R. Smith and A. Carter, "function and Site: Aspects of Norwich Buildings" Vernacular Architecture, Vol.14, 1983
Listing NGR: TG2310908693
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 228858
- 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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