8, MARKET PLACE

8, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1292056
Date first listed:
29-Dec-1950
List Entry Name:
8, MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address:
8, MARKET PLACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1292056
Date first listed:
29-Dec-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
14-Sept-1992
List Entry Name:
8, MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address 1:
8, MARKET PLACE

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:
8, MARKET PLACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Norfolk
District:
South Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Wymondham
National Grid Reference:
TG 11117 01466

Details

WYMONDHAM

TF1101 MARKET PLACE 655-1/11/98 (East side) 29/12/50 No.8 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (East side) Nos.8-10 (Consecutive))

GV II

2 shops, formerly 3. Early C17, probably 1616. Altered. Timber-framed. Roofs of black glazed pantiles. 2 storeys and dormer attic. Mid C19 shop front composed of fluted corner pieces and door surrounds with plate glass display windows separated by round stiles with floral quadrant spandrels. This extends into north return (Bridewell Street). Blocked door to right with overlight of intersecting tracery. Prominent fascia board. Plastered and colourwashed first floor lit through 2 sashes with glazing bars. Bell-based gabled roof with one flat-topped dormer. Internal gable-end stack to south. 3-light attic casement to north return. Timber-framed house extends down Bridewell Street, now incorporated into shop premises. C19 brick underbuilt jetty and rendered first floor. 3 casements to ground floor, no openings above. Gabled roof. INTERIOR. Frame with straight braces to corners and jowled principal studs. East end with arched corner braces. Bridewell Street element with chamfered and sunk-quadrant bridging beams. Roof above of 2 tiers staggered butt purlins and cambered collars. Front roof range similar except purlins are not staggered.

Listing NGR: TG1111701466

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
386162
Legacy System:
LBS

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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