NHER 6133 (Monument record) - Blakeney Guildhall

Probably 13th century (or possibly 14th century) square flint building with pointed arch freestone entrance.
Vaulted brick interior.
Perhaps a mariners guildhall.
Drawing of undercroft in (S1).
R. R. Clarke (NCM)

(S2) adds 'some faint traces of wall paintings on plaster walls'.
These had gone by 1980s (S3).
Clearance of dumped soil from adjacent Mariners Hill revealed that blocked side doorway which gave rise to legend of tunnel to Walsingham or Binham is in fact access to formerly buried side projection and a possible stair turret.
Building was probably originally a ground floor storage undercroft.
Interior relimewashed in 1985.
Building dates to 15th century, and was originally a merchants house rather than a guildhall.
See (S3) and (S4).
E. Rose (NAU) 12 August 1985.

24 April 1994.
All limewash now removed from interior and brick vaulting revealed.
Rows of niches in internal faces of side walls between each vaulting shaft.
The side projection can now be seen to be a garderobe shaft from first floor level, but it also contains the base of a circular stair rising upwards from the first floor; so the building had two storeys above the undercroft, which must have been originally at ground level, not underground.
E. Rose (NLA)

(S5) suggests an origin as an almshouse or similar institution.
E. Rose (NLA), 2 September 2002.

January 2003. Norfolk NMP.
The remains/ruins of a probable Medieval Guildhall at Blakeney are clearly visible on OS 1995 (S6) and NLA 1990 (S7) and 1993 (S8) aerial photographs. It is located at NGR TG0281 4407. Only the undercroft of this building is surviving.
H. Clare (NMP), 22 January 2003.