NHER 15644 (Building record) - 4 to 6 Common Place

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Summary

These 16th century two storeyed jettied buildings have timbering exposed on upper floors. The ground floor is painted brick and flint faced. No. 5 has brick nogging between the timbers of the upper floor. No. 4 has been totally restored.

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Location

Map sheet TF93NW
Civil Parish WALSINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

November 1951. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
Two storeys and attic. Timber frame, ground floor flint-faced, 1st floor jettied with close-set studding. Steep black-glazed pantile roof with gabled ends. No 4 has 2 windows, modern casements with leaded panes; modern oak door; 2 C19 flat-roof dormers with casements. No 5 has C19 casements on 1st floor and 3 C18 mullion/transom casements on ground floor; off centre C18 door with fielded panels and thick glazing bars and rectangular fanlight. No 6 much modernised with flint-faced ground floor with new brick window openings and central doorway; 1st floor 5 new sashes and 2 new attic dormers.
Information from (S1).
H. Mellor (HES), 26 June 2017.

15 January 1980. Visit. Three houses forming northeast corner of Common Place.
Two storeyed, jettied buildings, with timbering exposed on upper floors. Western house of the group has flint infill, altered windows, and a brick fossil quoin at east end ground floor, former doorway? Central house has a flint ground floor wall, brick nogging between timbers of jettied storey, and windows conforming to the original size. Eastern house of group totally restored. Upper storey jettied, but in the replaced timbers here can be seen the marks of former windows. Visible old work seems 16th century.
E. Rose (NAU), 15 January 1980.

External sketch included in press cutting in file for NHER 15643.
E. Rose (NLA), 12 December 2003.

  • --- Monograph: Longcroft, A.; Brown, S.J.; Brown, M.; Barr, D. and Hinton, I. (eds). 2015. Little Walsingham: A study of historic buildings in a medieval pilgrimage centre. Journal of the Norfolk Historic Buildings Group. Vol 6. pp 182-185.
  • --- Monograph: Pevsner, N. and Wilson, B. 1997. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 599.
  • --- Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1982. [Illustration of 1 to 3 and 4 to 6 Common Place]. 29 January.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File. For NHER 15643.
  • <S1> Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1171687.

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Record last edited

Aug 14 2017 1:43PM

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