Description

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TG 2930
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TG 2830
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MARKET PLACE (South Side)
No 4

(Formerly listed as No 4 (Cross Keys Hotel))

GV
II
The building comprises a two-storey stucco rendered building front range, with a flint wall to the east. On the steep, machine tiled, roof there is a central cluster of four octagonal chimney shafts, and a single shaft on the eastern end. On the western side is a stepped gable.

There are quoins on each corner and banding between the ground and first floor.

There are three fixed windows on ground floor level, two of which are arched. On the first floor there are three multi-light sash windows with two taller sash windows to the right and on the west elevation. The windows on the principal elevation at first floor level have pilasters topped with decorative scroll consoles, and keystones.

There is a late-C20 entrance and shopfront on ground floor level to the right side of the building.

1 to 4 Market Place (consecutive) form a group.

Listing NGR: TG2836430224

History

North Walsham is a medieval market town that grew wealthy from the trade of wool and cloth. The town was largely rebuilt following a fire in 1600 but remained a significant market centre into the Industrial Revolution.

The building at Number 4 Market Place dates to the early C17 and was one of the towns oldest public houses: the Cross Keys. The licence to keep an ale-house on the site was first given in 1604. In the late C18 the building was part of the Oaks Estate and its outbuildings included stables and a bowling green, which later became a cattle market. The building is first shown on the Tithe Map of 1842 and the outbuildings to the rear and large courtyard can be seen on the map. There were alterations to the building in the mid-C19, and after this very little change until the Cross Keys was closed in the 1970s and purchased by Woolworths. The conversion to retail won the Graham Allen Award for Conservation in 1982, recognising the renovation of the building. After the closure of Woolworths in 2009 the building has continued to function as a commercial premise.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26291302

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)