Description

SWAFFHAM

TF8208 LONDON STREET 809-1/9/106 (East side) 10/01/51 No.23 Shirley House

GV II

House, now club. c1770, refronted late C20. Red brick; slate front roof, pantile rear roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys in 5-window range, the centre 3 window bays broken forward under a pediment. Central 6-panelled door, the centre 2 panels glazed. Timber doorcase of engaged Doric columns with block entablatures and an open pediment. 5-vaned fanlight. Fenestration throughout of 2/2 horned sashes under gauged skewback arches, except for 2 ground-floor left-hand 1/2 sashes. Modillion eaves cornice. Blind oculus in original pediment. Pitched roof rising to a central flat, formerly gabled, with internal gable end stacks. A brick front was added to that existing late C20, but the central pediment section remains. Mostly 2/2 sashes to rear under gauged brick lintels. INTERIOR: altered: ground-floor south rooms opened into continuous space for bar area. Stick-baluster staircase with ramped and wreathed handrail. 6-panel doors and C18 fireplace.



Listing NGR: TF8203308738

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