Description

1.
5401 HIGH STREET
(East Side)
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Nos 30 to 34 (even)
TQ 0107 1/24 26.3.49.

II GV

2.
Mid C18. Former George Inn. Red brick, with chaining of grey headers between
window ranges. Rusticated quoins of brick up to cornice level. Moulded brick
cornice above 1st floor. Rubbed brick voussoirs on 1st floor. Pitched tile roof,
masked by parapet with ashlar coping. Red brick chimneys.
3 storeys. 5 bays, of which centre 3 break forward. 2 flanking bays have Venetian
windows with double hung sashes and glazing bars on 1st floor. All other windows
are double-hung sashes with glazing bars, those on 2nd floor segment-headed, although
2 on 2nd floor have been filled in.
All 3 houses have shopfronts inserted on ground floor. No 30 has a segmental
bay on either side of the door, and dentilled cornice above glazed double doorway
with semi-circular fanlight. No 32 has 1 oblong bay window with glazing bars,
1 door with oblong fanligt, and moulded cornice over both. No 34 has an oblong
bay window with renewed glazing bars on either side of panelled double doors,
top 3/4 glazed, with marginal glazing bars. Moulded entablature over all, with
fret pattern on frieze.
In the C18 The George Inn belonged to the Duke of Norfolk and was the political
centre of the local Whig party, until superseded by the Norfolk Arms in 1783-5.

Nos 18 to 34 (even) with the Castle Walls and Town Gates form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ0186107156

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26636644

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)