NHER 30673 (Building record) - No 17 Town Green

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Summary

No 17 began life as a 17th century timber-framed house. In the 19th century it was given a brick façade, and there is also a 19th century tiled shop front with the heads of bull and sheep and an iron butcher's hooks.

Protected Status/Designation

Location

Map sheet TG10SW
Civil Parish WYMONDHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

August 1987. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Shop and flat. 17th century with late 19th-century façade. Forms one element of a row. Timber-framed, largely replaced with brick. Pantile roof. Two storeys. Symmetrical shop front with central two-leafed part-glazed doors with rectangular cast-iron lattice vent above. Sliding sash shop windows with arched upper sashes forming spandrels for cast-iron lattice vents. Glazed tile plinth with head of bull to left and sheep to right in decorative medallions (vents and tiles denote a butcher's shop). Coloured tile paving to front of shop. Sloping fascia flanked by paired timber brackets on half-fluted pilasters. Over each window is an iron bar with decorated terminals for displaying meat. 2 first-floor sashes with horns. Brick dentil eaves cornice. Stack to rear of ridge. Rear wing attached.
Interior - Surviving 17th-century spine bridging beam with ogee and nicked chamfer stops."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
E. Rose (NLA), 17 June 1994. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 July 2021.

  • --- Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 802.
  • <S1> Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1218672.

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Record last edited

Jul 21 2021 7:55PM

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