Central Hotel (Part)

THETFORD

TL8783 MARKET PLACE 617-1/6/99 (East side) 10/03/71 Central Hotel (part)

GV II

Hotel. Early C19, converted to offices 1991. Coursed clunch, flint, re-used medieval carved masonry, gault brick dressings and gault brick facade. Slate roof. 3 storey facade in 3 bays. Central panelled and glazed door below a 5-vaned fanlight. Doorcase composed of a pair of engaged Tuscan columns supporting an open segmental pediment enriched with dentils and guttae. C20 shop front to left; boarded bay to right (at time of Review). Three 6/6 unhorned sashes light the first floor under gauged skewback arches. Three 3/3 sashes to 2nd floor also with gauged skewback arches. Gabled roof. Internal gable-end stacks north and south. Rear is largely of coursed clunch. North gable to Castle Street with re-used medieval fragments: C12 colonnette rises through all storeys to left. C12 fragments of chevron, colonnette bases and capital with C14 tracery cusps are arranged picturesquely in gable head. Gault brick tumbling.

Listing NGR: TL8720483045