41-43, St Giles Street

41-43, St Giles Street, Norwich, NR2 1JR

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1372484
Date first listed:
05-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:
41-43, St Giles Street
Statutory Address:
41-43, St Giles Street, Norwich, NR2 1JR
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1372484
Date first listed:
05-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:
41-43, St Giles Street
Statutory Address 1:
41-43, St Giles Street, Norwich, NR2 1JR

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
41-43, St Giles Street, Norwich, NR2 1JR

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 22703 08593

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/03/2020

TG 2208 NE
15/758

ST. GILES STREET (north side)
Nos. 41-43

(Formerly listed as Telephone House, Nos. 41-43)

5.6.72

GV
II*

Office. 1906 by G. Skipper with later C20 rear addition. Bath stone with marble plinth and outer columns. Portland stone elements. Roof not visible. Three storeys. Five bays - A:B:C:B:A with central and end bays projecting in Neo-Baroque style. Central doorway with four Doric columns supporting a curved broken pediment with cartouche. Six Doric columns through ground and first floors supporting entablature with open pediment over centre bay and pediments over end bays. Sash windows at ground and first floors with glazing bars and raised surrounds. The windows in the outer bays have balconies at first floor. First floor central window with rusticated surround and semi-circular arch. Seven casement windows at second floor with glazing bars and eared and haunched surrounds. Balustrade parapet with urns. Remains of two and a half bays of brick C15 undercroft beneath No. 43.

Interior: T-shaped entrance hall with paired columns; panelled staircase with marble columns and coffered ceiling, boardroom in centre of first floor has five panelled double-leaf doors, fireplace with scrolled pediment, large French window to balcony with round pediment and swags, and a three-bay domed ceiling.

Listing NGR: TG2270308593

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Legacy System number:
229532
Legacy System:
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Sources

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British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 02 March 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

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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.

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