Description

TL 5563 SWAFFHAM BULBECK COMMERCIAL END
(West Side)

14/119 Warehouse and
Granary, approx
25yds North of
Merchants House

GV II

Warehouse, early C19. Gault brick, English bond with a low,
hipped roof of slate. Two storeys and a cellar. The gable end
to the road has a hoist opening to the first floor above a
larger doorway to the ground floor. The side wall overlooking
the former cobbled yard and drying ground and opposite the
counting-house of Thomas Bowyer's premises, has four recessed
windows at each floor. (Probably built by Thomas Bowyer and the
only commercial building surviving intact which was associated
with the inland ports in the village. Part of the dock basin is
visible about 10 yards North West of the warehouse).

R.C.H.M. (North East Cambs.), p110, mon (39)

Listing NGR: TL5576663339

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26419969

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]