3 AND 4, MARKET PLACE
3 AND 4, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1207841
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 4, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 3 AND 4, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1207841
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 4, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3 AND 4, MARKET PLACE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 3 AND 4, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thetford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL8718883083
Details
TL8783
617-1/6/97
THETFORD
MARKET PLACE (North side)
Nos. 3 AND 4
03/04/51
GV II*
Pair of shops and flats above. C16. Mostly rebuilt early C18, re-worked late C18, re-roofed 1975, restored and re-roofed following fire 1991. Timber-frame on a C14 brick undercroft.
Gault brick skin to main facade. Corner site. Main south facade of 2 storeys in 6 bays. 2 doorways comprising pilaster doorcases with metope block entablatures and open pediments. Y-tracery fanlights. Alternating with doorways are three C20 plate-glass shop display windows. 6 sashes to first floor removed at time of Review. Dentil eaves cornice and gabled roof. Stacks to rear and east side. East face rendered and colourwashed with an external stack to left and two 6/6 sashes each floor to right, one of which (upper right) is blocked. Rear with 2 additional early C19 blocks added to resemble a double-pile plan. 2 storeys, flint faced with gault brick dressings. French door and a 6/6 sash to right (No.3), which is entered through a C19 brick full-height gabled porch.
INTERIOR: rear porch to No.3 communicates direct to front door via a straight passage. Early C19 stick-baluster staircase with ramped and wreathed handrail. In No.4 at first floor is a patch of exposed timber-framing of early C18 scantling. Roofs 1991 except for one C16 cranked tie beam in front range. No.4 with C20 staircase and a mid C16 bressumer to rear fireplace: reeded and fluted frieze.
Undercroft entered from a hatch in rear of No.4. Brick steps descend to a barrel-vaulted passage which leads south into a brick chamber with a sexpartite vault, the brick ribs plain-chamfered. No bosses. The ribs spring from moulded polygonal corbels. To the east through a double-chamfered stilted arch is a 2nd chamber formerly with a quadripartite vault, the ribs of which have been removed and the ceiling boarded. Springers remain. To west is a doorway leading into a chamber reduced in size by a timber partition and turned into a coal-cellar with a shute to the street. This formerly also quadripartite-vaulted.
Listing NGR: TL8718883083
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384766
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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