NHER 12013 (Building record) - 56A High Street

56A High Street.

December 1951. Listed, Grade II.

November 1977. Field Observation.
147 Norfolk Street/56 High Street visited by E. Rose (NAU).
16th-century or earlier timber-framed house, with renewed façade to Norfolk Street. Victorian window in projecting upper floor of No. 147.
Information from Listing.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 2 November 1977. Information from record card (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 July 2023.

Now listed as 56A High Street, (S2) states jetty cut back in 1969. Very little survives of interior. Winder stair at attic level only.
E. Rose (NLA), 11 March 1999.

No. 56 is recorded separately as NHER 46567.

Listing Description excerpt:
"Shop, originally with domestic accommodation to lost rear wing and upper floors. 16th century, altered many times, repaired 1969. Timber-framed with brick, rendered and colourwashed. Plain tiled roof. Three storeys and attic. Gable-end to street with 20th-century shopfront to ground floor...Jetty above reduced in depth 1969 when entire front wall rebuilt above this point...Gabled roof. Rear is pebbledashed and supported by permanent steel external frame. INTERIOR. One boxed bridging beam to ground floor. Winder staircase formerly situated in north-west corner and survives only at attic level. No features at first floor. Second floor with one chamfered bridging beam. Studwork to facade is of 1969. Roof of 1969 copying a clasped purlin type. Some fragments of original timber-frame detectable."
Information from (S2).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S2) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 20 July 2023.