Strangers Hall Museum, Charing Cross, Norwich, Norfolk
This house was been owned by important merchants and mayors of Norwich. The street front seen today was remodelled in 1621-2. It was done for the then mayor, Francis Cock, a grocer. The building itself is much older. A building is first recorded on this site in the early 1300s. It was built for a Ralph de Middleton. Parts of it (the undercroft) still exist in the current house. A hall (grand room) built in the mid 1400s for a merchant, William Barley, is still intact. The building was also altered in c1500 for the mayor Thomas Cawse. Then in c1530 for Nicholas Sotherton, a grocer. After the refronting in 1621-2 it was again altered in 1659 by Sir Joseph Paine, a hosier.
