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Latitude: 52.6324 / 52°37'56"N
Longitude: 1.2979 / 1°17'52"E
OS Eastings: 623271
OS Northings: 308957
OS Grid: TG232089
Mapcode National: GBR W9P.KF
Mapcode Global: WHMTM.X378
Plus Code: 9F43J7JX+X5
Entry Name: 11 and 13, Wensum Street
Listing Date: 5 June 1972
Last Amended: 16 September 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1290167
English Heritage Legacy ID: 229739
ID on this website: 101290167
Location: The Close, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3
County: Norfolk
District: Norwich
Electoral Ward/Division: Thorpe Hamlet
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Norwich
Traditional County: Norfolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk
Church of England Parish: Norwich St George, Tombland
Church of England Diocese: Norwich
Tagged with: Building
In the entry for:
WENSUM STREET
16/943 (east side)
No 11
5.6.72 II
The address shall be amended to read:
WENSUM STREET
(east side)
Nos 11 and 13
The description shall be amended to read:
Former use unknown, now shops and restaurant. C15 undercroft. C17,heightened in C18.
Major C20 alterations. Rendered. Black pantile roof. 3 storeys, jettied at first
floor. 2nd floor windows. 3 bay shopfront to the left-side with attached fluted
columns supporting fascia. Central shopping arcade entry with casement window to side.
Tall 2-storey shopfront at righthand side. Casement windows throughout. Flat modillion
cornice. Beneath the street range of the building are the remains of a brick built
undercroft, dated by comparison with others in the city to the C15. Two side chambers
survive each with a four-centred profile; one extending beneath the street and the
other in the north wall of the cellar. To the south of the former is a part of a
blocked opening representing either another side chamber or a doorway.
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TG 2308 NW WENSUM STREET
(east side)
16/943
5.6.72. No. 11
II
Former use unknown now shops and restaurant. C17 heightened in the C18.
Major C20 alterations. Rendered. Black pantile roof. 3 storeys, jettied
at first floor. 2nd floor windows. 3 bay shopfront to the left-side
with attached fluted columns supporting fascia. Central shopping arcade
entry with casement window to side. Tall 2-storey shopfront at right-
hand side. Casement windows throughout. Flat modillion cornice.
Listing NGR: TG2327108957
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