NHER 40190 (Building record) - 5 Market Place

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Summary

Well House house (5 Market Place) was originally built c.1700. The house has a brick façade using Flemish Bond with sash windows and a black pantiled roof.

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Location

Map sheet TG00SW
Civil Parish HINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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5 Market Place. This record previously included some information on 6 Market Place, which is now recorded separately as NHER 65298.

October 1951. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"House. 18th-century red brick, black-glazed pantile roof with gable ends. Modillion eaves cornice. Two storeys. Three widely spacer windows. Sashes with glazing bars in exposed cases, ground floor wide with flat rubbed brick arches. Central doorway with heavy moulded pilasters and entablature with roundels in frieze and with deep modillion cornice, panelled reveals, rectangular fanlight with radial bars and panelled door. 18th-century brick coping at rear."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 20 February 2022.

February 2004. Field Observation.
House, said to have a timber frame by [1].
At time of relisting in 1991 this was described as 18th century red brick with black glazed pantiles. Two storeys, three bays of sash windows with exposed cases and flat arches; central doorway with pilasters and entablature, rectangular fanlight. 18th century brick coping at rear (S1). However, brief external inspection of façade found that render or stucco had at some date been removed by mechanical means (making dating of bricks impossible due to erosion) and the present windows and door are clearly inserted on the site of earlier large openings. To the rear is a large curtilage forming a walled garden with a coach house at the northwest corner. The garden walls to east and northeast have diagonal skintlings and date from about 1700 (is this the date of the house therefore?) but the coach house is a 19th century insertion and the west garden wall that runs south from it has a plaque. Built by Alfred Muskett 1865.
E. Rose (NLA), 28 February 2004.

February 2006. Building Survey.
Well House house was originally built c.1700. The house has a brick façade using Flemish Bond with sash windows and a black pantiled roof. The original windows to the south front were replaced during the 18th century presumably by the sash windows and there is evidence of voussoirs (wedge-shaped stones forming the curved parts of the window arch). The house was remodelled in the later Regency style in 1820 as seen in the current large sash windows to the front and the extensive internal decorations.
See report (S2) for further details.
S. Howard (NLA), 16 December 2009.

  • --- Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 407.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1051183.
  • <S2> Unpublished Document: Brown, S. and Brown, M.. 2006. Building report by NHBG for Well House 5 Market Place, Higham, Norfolk.. Norfolk Historic Buildings Group.

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Feb 20 2022 10:41AM

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