Norwich Streets 'C' Norwich Streets 'C'
[ Calvert Street: East side (Octagon Court), 1, 3, 3 to 5 ]
[ Calvert Street: 7 to 9 (Pope’s Buildings), 11 ]
[ Calvert Street: 49 to 57, 69 ]
[ Calvert Street: 2
to 10, 16 to 18 ]
[ Calvert Street: 18 to 22 ]
[ Calvert Street: 28 to 30, 52 to 54 (weavers window), 92 to 98, 110 to
112 ]
[ Castle Meadow: 3 (Castle Hotel), 20, 26 (Opie House) ] [ Castle Street: 13 ]
[ Cattle Market Street: 18 (part of Golden Ball PH) to 21 (The Buff Coat PH), 24 (cast iron and glass shop front built 1863), 25 (Shirehall PH) ]
[ The Chantry: Doorway canopy (modern copy of mediaeval one at the Strangers Hall Charing Cross) ] [ Chapel Street: 7 to 15 (renovated by amateurs in 1938) ]
[ Chapel Field East: 15 (former Bowling Green Inn), Stables (of Inn) ]
[ Chapel Field North: 3, 4 (Chapel Field House - wrought iron balcony) ]
[ Chapel Field North: 7 (Regency period - with 1989 balcony) to 10, 13 (St Mary’s Croft - built by Captain Crowe 1881 incorporating walls of earlier house) ]
[ Chapel Field Road: 5 to 9 (Little Sisters’ Convent), 8 (Volunteer Stores PH), 42 to 44, 47 (Gothic House 1857), 66 to 96 ]
[ Charing Cross: 1 to 11, 13 to 15 (former Lord Camden PH), 29, Lord Camden Yard ]
[ Charing Cross: 6 to 12 (Strangers Hall) Map ]
[ Charing Cross: 2 to 4, 6 to 12 (Strangers Hall): door with date 1621, courtyard (the main part of the house was built c1450 by William Barley M.P. and mercer - many additions and alterations made since notably by Thomas Cawse and Nicholas Sotherton) ]
[ Charing Cross: 6 to 12 (Strangers Hall): doorway below groined porch added by Nicholas Sotherton after 1525, 16c. doorway next steps in forecourt (“I.M.W.1592” - originally at a house in Palace Street), forecourt, exterior of Georgian dining room with Oak room above (rebuilt by Sir Joseph Paine - 1659), stone vaulted bay of Great Hall (inserted by Nicholas Sotherton - 16c.), Staircase bay (added by Francis Cock - 1627) ]
[ Charing Cross: 6 to 12 (Strangers Hall): inner courtyard Georgian doorways (formerly at 14 St Giles’ Street and at 18 Bethel Street qv) ] [ Cherry
Lane: South side ] [ Church Alley: Church House ]
[ Church Lane Eaton: Old house (west side), 17c. houses (west side - crow-stepped gables), Thatched house (east side) ]
[ The Close: 2 (built 1702 by Thomas Gurdon who wrote a history of Norwich Castle), 3 to 4 (built 18c. on the site of and incorporating parts of one of the monastic granaries) ]
[ The Close: 5, 6 (Hay’s Lodgings c.1578): 16c. doorway , arcaded garden wall ]
[ The Close: 7 (inhabited 1780 by Dr Sandby - Chancellor of the Diocese), Holland Court (Tudor archway bearing Arms of the See of East Anglia), 8 to 12 (11 was in 1783 occupied by Thomas Garland the Cathedral’s organist and discoverer of Zachariah Buck), 16, 17 ]
[ The Close: 17, 18 (home of Dr Silas Neville in 18c.), 23 to 24, 25 (Ferry House - before and after 1949 restoration), Pull’s Ferry Perry House (named after Poole - the last ferry man to have kept it as a PH c.1800)
]
[ The Close: 26 (the Dean’s House), Stables and Coach houses (north side of lane leading to ferry) ]
[ The Close: 27 to 30 ]
[ The Close: 31 to 34 (built upon the site of the monastic brewery and bakery - 32 and 33 date from 1682 according to an inscribed stone in the centre of the facade having been erected by John Ringall) ]
[ The Close: 35, 38 (renovated 1956 - 35 to 39 are known as Blagrave tenements after the man who acquired a lease of the site in 1679), 40 to 41 (renovated 1968) ]
[ The Close: 43 to 45, 46 to 48 (Hook’s Walk), Bishop’s House St Martin’s Palace Plain (erected 1959 - architect J.Fletcher Watson) ]
[ The Close: 49 (Hook’s Walk), 50 (residence of Dr Frank Sayers - physician poet essayist and antiquary - 1792 to 1817), 52, 53 (Dial House) to 56 (51 to 56 incorporate much of the monastic granary including 13c. arcade and 15c. roof) ]
[ The Close: Former Deanery (in monastic times this was the Prior’s Hall and buildings extended across the road to the west linking it with the Cloisters), 57 (Abbeyfields - Victorian gothic) ]
[ The Close: 58, 59, 60, 60b, 63 ]
[ The Close: 65, 66, 67 ]
[ The Close: 69 (old School House - restored 1956), Norwich School teaching blocks ]
[ The Close: 71 (renovated 1956), 73, 75 ]
[ Coburg Street: 4 (part of The Trumpet PH), 6 to 8, 26 (William IV PH) ] [ Colegate: 3 (St Clement’s Rectory), 11 to 15 ]
[ Colegate: 19, 27 to 29, Old Meeting House Yard (at rear of 19) ]
[ Colegate: 31 (Bacon House) Map ]
Bacon House Colegate:
“A series of trenches planned as an extension of the structural investigations of the mid 16th century building of Henry Bacon (mayor of Norwich in 1557 and 1566) was laid out across the suspected line of the western ditch of the northern (city) defences. No ditch was found and the earliest features on the site (which lay 15m. behind the street frontage) were a number of 12th century pits filled with industrial refuse. This consisted of iron slag and horn-cores and was dated by sherds of Andenne ware and Red-painted ware. Sealing these pits, and a 12th century barrel-lined well re-used as a cess pit, were a series of 13th to 15th century yard levels into which a late 15th century bell pit had been dug. The pit, in addition to a sherd of Spanish lustre ware of c.1470, contained enough fragments of bell mould to reconstruct the shape and size of a small bell - probably cast for the adjacent church of St George. The bell pit disappeared under the east wall of what is thought to be the great parlour of Bacon’s House and was sealed beneath the floor of what was probably the kitchen. The walls of this still stand and are quite clearly slightly later than the main building - which can be dated to 1547 or earlier. Running east from the ‘kitchen’ were the foundations of a wall which is tentatively identified as the north wall of the gallery with a ‘chamber over’ mentioned in 1567. At the east end of this, and abutting the service wing of the house, was a staircase turret. The foundations of the wall and turret contained a remarkable collection of 14th and 15th century worked stone, most of which probably derived from the previous building on the site but some at least of which probably came from the ‘chapel’ site (the old Blackfriars’?) leased by Bacon in the 1540s. The probable line of the gallery’s south wall (almost certainly an open arcade) lay outside the limited area available for excavation. Access to the upper floor of the gallery would originally have been by the turret staircase only (a pair to that by which the upper floor of the front range was reached). In the later 16th century, probably c.1580-90, this was supplemented by the conversion of the kitchen to a staircase tower. Parts of the decorative wall plastering of this survive in situ. Other plaster, probably from the ceiling, was later used in the make up for an 18th century reflooring of the room when it was dug out as a sub-basement. The room names that appear on the plan are the result of documentary research up to December 1974 and may have to be modified as further information supplementary to that in wills is obtained.” A.S.Esmonde Cleary B.A. “Excavations in Norwich 1974” in “Norfolk Archaeology” vol.36 (1975)
[ Colegate: 31 (Bacon House): South front, West wing (16c. windows), East wing ]
A good example of a well-preserved Elizabethan house. Erected a few years before 1549 by Henry Bacon (Mayor of Norwich in 1557 and 1566). As Sheriff in 1548-9 he entertained the Duke of Northumberland at the time of Kett’s Rebellion, putting the Duke’s emblem of a ragged staff above his door. The lintel of the front doorway has a merchant’s mark balanced by the arms of the Grocers’ Company and his mark also appears over a window to the left as well as high up near the south-west angle. During renovation in 1935 two walls of oak panelling were found beneath canvas and paper in an upstairs room - other panelling is said to have been removed years previously to Great Witchingham Hall. In the mid-18th century the house was occupied by Mr Justice Wiggett and in 1850 it was used as the People’s College by J.J.Gurney, J.Fletcher, J.W.Dowson and others. It was purchased and restored early in the 20th century by Walter Rye. The east wing was gutted by fire in 1925. After acquisition by the City Council the whole building was again restored and converted to a variety of uses (flats, shops, clubroom, studios &c.). The work was completed in 1978.
[ Colegate: 31 (Bacon House): Front door (16c.) ]
[ Colegate: 31 (Bacon House): Stone tablet, North gable, Spandrels (above wicket of a door removed from Carrow Abbey but originally at a house in Bedford Street - “F.T.C.”“1596” - inserted at east end of the Colegate frontage here in 1978), Spandrels (above doorway in renovated east wing - removed from a Summerhouse at Thorpe Lodge but which was originally taken from Bacon House) ]
[ Colegate: 31 (Bacon House) ]
[ Colegate: 47, 49, 51 ]
[ Colegate: 53, Burrell’s Yard, Hook’s Yard ]
[ Colegate: 57 (Golden Star PH), 57a (renovated 1975 - “1660”“J.S.” above first floor window), 14 to 16 (exterior flint walls are remains of the house of John Aldrich - grocer - and Mayor in 1558 and 1570), Shave’s Yard doorway (“Ano 1570”), Spandrels ]
[ Colegate: 18 ]
[ Colegate: 20 (built 1600 - bought by John Harvey worstead weaver before 1710 - in 1743 Robert Harvey refaced the walls with red brick in the Classical style) ]
[ Colegate: 18 to 28, 32 (Black Boys PH) to 38 ]
[ Colegate: Black Boys Yard,
34 to 38, 52 (the house and dye-yard of William Stark - a Norwich School artist), 64 to 74, Grapes Yard ]
[ Colman Road: School for handicapped ]
[ Constitution Hill: 68, 82 (“Chaumiere de L’Etoile”) ] [ Cooper Lane: The
Alders ] [ Coslany Street: 20 to
22, 24, 30 ]
[ Cow Hill: 1 to 4, 8 to 11 ]
[ Cow Hill: 15 to 17 (Holkham House - early 19c. - the residence of John Thomas Patience architect and City Surveyor - designer of Friends Meeting House, Lady Lane Methodist Chapel and Roman Catholic chapel Willow Lane), 18, Cow Yard ]
[ Cowgate: 31, 131 (undercroft is a fragment of the Whitefriars’ monastery), 135 to 141 ]
[ Cowgate: 8, 106 (Fastolff’s
House - 15c. with its arrangement of double-decker gables was built as his City House in Pockthorpe by Sir John Fastolff of Caister-by-Yarmouth - in 18c. its Great Hall was in use as a bakehouse and later became an inn), Factory Yard ]
[ The Crescent ] [ Cross Lane: 1 to 5 (Rifleman PH - believed to be the house which Crome the artist visited nightly), 6 to 14 ]
[ Crown Road: 34, 39 (the Market Tavern) ]
Text and photographs Copyright © G.A.F.Plunkett 2002
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