6-11, Railway Cottages

A terrace of six former railway workers' cottages, dating from the mid-19th century (1847). Designed by Grissell & Peto, architects and builders for the Norfolk Railway Company, the cottages are constructed of red brick with yellow brick detailing, and are largely rendered. They have slate roofs and brick chimneys. The terrace is single-storey with an attic, and has a twelve-window front. The end cottages project slightly. Each cottage has a centrally located door with a projecting porch featuring a four-centred arch and a pediment, flanked by casement windows, which are mostly replacements with 20th-century plate glass. A plain brick string course runs along the front, and there are gabled half-dormers in the roof. A single-storey lean-to extension is attached to the left.

These cottages are part of a unique group of planned workers’ dwellings in Norwich, arranged around a roughly triangular common drying yard paved with flint and cobbles.