Music House
MUSIC HOUSE, 167 AND 169, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1217907
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Music House
- Statutory Address:
- MUSIC HOUSE, 167 AND 169, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1217907
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Music House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MUSIC HOUSE, 167 AND 169, KING STREET
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:
- MUSIC HOUSE, 167 AND 169, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Norwich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 23628 08041
Details
TG 2308 SE KING STREET (east side) 24/423 26.2.54. Nos. 167 and 169 (Music House). - I Former house now educational institute. C12 onwards. Flint, Brick, Pantile roofs. King Street facade:- 2 storey with 3 storey end gable-ends. 5 irregularly spaced windows at 2nd floor. C20 door set into C12 door opening central to lett-hand gable-end. C20 door to its right. 2 large 6-light mullion and transom windows with pediments, centrally placed with 2 smaller 6-light mullion and transom windows above partly blocked to right-side. Sash windows and casements elsewhere. Pediment with cill missing above the 2 right-hand sash windows. Moulded stringcourse between the central windows. Interior:- C12 stone built undercroft beneath the left-side gable width which represents the extent of the original house. The undercroft has 2 compart- ments with a connecting door: the first is entered from the street and has roll-moulded and hollow chamfered ribs, the rear room has 2 bays of groin vaulting between flat-section transverse arches, and the remains of a spiral stair in the north-east corner. On the south external wall of this undercroft is the remains of a large respond with ricked base, the remainder of this phase of the building being destroued by the C15 brick-built 3-bay undercroft parallel to the street-line.
Listing NGR: TG2362808041
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 229184
- 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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