NHER 34716 (Building record) - 18 Market Place (Swaffham Sixth Form Centre North Block)

18 Market Place (Swaffham Six Form Centre North Block).

January 1951. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"House, now school. c.1780-1800, converted to school early 20th century. Red brick. Slate roof. Exterior: Two storeys; three-window range. Six-panelled door to left within stuccoed doorcase with minor incised decoration and plain entablature...Painted platband at first floor. Projecting bracketed eaves. Gabled roof. Internal gable-end stacks north and south. Relocated plaque at first floor records foundation of school in 1736 by Nicholas Hamond. Interior: 18th-century moulded cornices. Ground-floor north room with timber fire surround decorated with egg-and-dart moulding. Stick-baluster staircase with ramped and wreathed handrail. First-floor room with timber fire surround with ovals in frieze linked by swags."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Exterior seen by E. Rose (NLA), 3 November 1999.
Compiled by E. Rose (NLA), 3 November 1999. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 February 2024.

20 Market Place (Swaffham Six Form Centre South Block) was also listed Grade II in 1951 and is now recorded as NHER 68113. Gate piers and flanking walls to the north of 18 Market Place and gate piers at the rear entrance of the school (on Whitsands Road) were separately listed Grade II in 1973 - these are now recorded as NHERs 68114 and 68115 respectively.
P. Watkins (HES), 21 February 2024.