Description

TG 2308 SW NORWICH RED LION STREET
(east side)
1188/23/10036
No.13

GV II

Includes: Nos.3 AND 5-9 ORFORD YARD.
Vet's surgery, house and livery stables, now commercial premises, offices and restaurants. Dated 1902. By Edward Boardman and Son for John Pollock FRCVS. Red brick with stone dressings and ashlar ground floor. Pantile roof with ornamental stacks on house and further stack in yard. Courtyard plan with house of 4 storeys and attic facing Red Lion Street and 2-storey former stables surrounding Oxford Yard to rear. House in 'Pont Street Dutch' style. 3-window range at 1st and 2nd floors of French windows and casements with canted oriel to right and tripartite window over it. 2 2-light windows to 3rd floor and bull's eye window above. Windows mostly have leaded lights. Stone bandings and string courses and cut brick aprons. S tone-coped Dutch gable with 1902 in iron tie ends. Iron balcony to 1st floor. Ground floor has door and 2-light window to right and moulded archway to left leading to yard. In the arch spandrels are 'Shoeing, Forge, Livery Stable' as well as: 'JP' for the patron. Carriageway has part-glazed doors and casements with glazing bars and similar canted bay to right facing yard, the windows mainly with curved iron grilles. Oxford Yard has various part-glazed doors and windows including sliding doors to former forge to left with casements over, and small windows to 1st floor straight ahead with door to left. Above is a complete run of skylights with clapboarded and gabled hoist to right and stack to left. Section to right has open ground floor and horse ramp to 1st floor stable. INTERIOR of former stables have original cast-iron and boarded stable dividers. A very complete example of a purpose-built city-centre vet's surgery and livery stables.

NORWICH
TG2308SW ORFORD YARD

1188/23/10036 Nos.3 AND 5-9 (Consecutive)

GV II

See under: No.13 RED LION STREET.

Listing NGR: TG2306508288

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537844

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