77 AND 79, BARRACK STREET

77 AND 79, BARRACK STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380080
Date first listed:
09-Feb-2000
List Entry Name:
77 AND 79, BARRACK STREET
Statutory Address:
77 AND 79, BARRACK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380080
Date first listed:
09-Feb-2000
List Entry Name:
77 AND 79, BARRACK STREET
Statutory Address 1:
77 AND 79, BARRACK STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:
77 AND 79, BARRACK STREET

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 23512 09390

Details

TG 2309 SE NORWICH BARRACK STREET
(South side)
1188/12/10108
Nos. 77 and 79

GV II


Pair of houses. Early C19 (adjoining houses not included dated 1816). Whitewashed red brick; pantiled roof (red to rear slope, black-glazed to front).
PLAN: one-up, one-down terraced houses without a rear extension when built.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2-window range. North front with 2 6-panelled doors, to the right of which is one 3/3 horned sash display window (No. 79), and one C20 4 x 2 paned display window (No. 77). Fascia boards over windows. 2 2/2 horned sashes to first floor. Central ridge stack.
Rear with single-storeyed, flat-roofed early C20 extension incorporating the existing smoke-house. Pyramid smoke stack and a secondary stack to its north. Main rear wall with one boarded sash to each house.
INTERIOR: winder staircase to No. 77 remains north of the stack; the staircase to No. 79 removed to allow access between the two houses on conversion to one property in the late C19. No. 79 with timber cupboard doors behind the C20 frying range. One 2 x 3 paned rear window now looking into rear extension.
No. 77 similar. First floor of No. 77 with cast-iron hob grate within a timber surround, No. 79 with boarded fireplace.
A rare survival and reported to be the last in Norwich (Stefan Muthesius,'The English Terraced House',1982, p102.


Listing NGR: TG2351209390

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
479555
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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