Description

TF8208
809-1/8/73
29/03/50

SWAFFHAM
MARKET PLACE
(East side)
Nos.89 AND 91
Montpellier House (No.89) and Western House (No.91)
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
(East side)
No.91 Western House)
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
(East side)
No.89 Montpelier House)

GV
II

House, now divided into 2. c1750, divided late C20. Knapped
flint with gault-brick dressings; roof of black-glazed
pantiles.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys in 7-window range. Centre 3 bays broken
forward and defined by rusticated brick quoins, repeated to
outside angles of elevation. Central C20 glass door.
Semicircular porch on 2 fluted Roman Doric columns and
pilasters, Greek key meander in frieze, plain entablature.
Fenestration of 6/6 horned sashes to ground and first floors,
3/3 horned sashes to attic floor, all with gauged skewback
arches, 2 right-hand ground- and attic-floor windows without
horns. Second doorway in extreme right bay: timber doorcase
with consoles supporting hood. Bracketed eaves cornice. Gabled
roof with stone coping to gable parapets and internal
gable-end stacks north and south.
Single-storey extension to north fitted with bowed plate-glass
display window.
INTERIOR: main staircase removed. Secondary stick-baluster
staircase to south (Western House), under which is re-used mid
C17 small-framed panelling. First-floor centre room has marble
fire insert and an eared timber surround: acanthus decoration,
imbricated pulvinated frieze interrupted by shell ornament in
high relief; eared overmantel with corner rosettes beneath a
broken pediment containing bust. Large-framed wall panelling
with meander decoration. Window surrounds with reel and bobbin
mouldings and acanthus carving. Plaster cornice with dentils,
egg-and-dart moulding and modillions.
No.91, Western House was listed on 10.1.51.

Listing NGR: TF8199908915

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559672

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)