NHER 705 (Building record) - General Post Office Museum, St Andrew's Street

General Post Office Museum, St Andrew's Street.

December 1969. Field Observation.
Examination of arched cellar beneath this building and the Theatre De Luxe next door (NHER 118).
Simple arch with no features. Brick appears to be the same as the building above.
Information from (S1).
P. Watkins (HES), 24 January 2018.

1970. Listed Grade II*.
Listing Description Excerpt:
“Former house, now museum. 15th-century. Brick and flint rubble ground floor, timber frame with brick infill first floor. Pantile roof. Set back and parallel to street line. Two storeys, first floor jettied. One bay of former five-bay house.”
“Contemporary brick-built undercroft with pointed barrel-vault profile with the apex parallel to the street line. A painting by H. Ninham 1848 (S2), shows the complete building” (Norwich Castle museum accession No. 44.89.929).
Information from (S3).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S3) for the current details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 24 January 2018. Amended by H. Hamilton (HES), 8 November 2019.

January 1978. Building Survey.
Examined as part of Norwich Survey.
Isolated two storey brick and flint building with pantiled roof. Jettied to north.
See (S4) notes for further details and various sketch plans and drawings of architectural details. Sketch ground floor plan on record form (S5).
T.E. Miller (NLA), 13 October 2004.

This building and its undercroft are amongst those listed in thesis (S6), which considers the 13th- to 17th-century buildings of Norwich. The buiding is described as one surviving bay of a long, 15th-century building set back from and parallel to the street. At ground floor the bay width is taken up by a carriage entry that has timber spandrels beneath the bressumer. The undercroft is described as a pointed barrel-vault, parallel to and away from the street line, and probably contemporary with the building above.

January 1997. Descheduled.
This building has been descheduled but remains protected as a Listed Building (S3).
Information from (S7).
H. Mellor (HES), 6 June 2018.