1 AND 3, TIMBERHILL (See details for further address information)

TG 2308 SW ORFORD HILL (south side) 23/603 28.3.72. No. 7 GV II* Includes Nos. 1 and 3 Timberhill. Former house and undercroft, now shop and printing works, partly empty at the time of resurvey. House, C17 refaced and altered in the early C19. Red brick, rendered on the timber- hill facade:-3 bays. Central door with reeded surround and pediment. Sash windows with flat rubbed brick arches. Timberhill facade;- Plain shopfront with corner door and end passage - entry.Sash windows with simple surrounds and casement windows at 2nd floor. Box cornice and hipped roof. Undercroft, C15, brick. 4½ bays with side chambers beneath C16 & C17 corner block, turning at east end to follow Timberhill street line. Single order chamfered ribs in quadripartite design to full bays,pointed barrel vault profile to west half bay. Entry stairs with timber treads parallel to south wall and over partially blocked side chamber. Western side chamber contains C17 brickwork conteporary with rear range. North side chamber or exit, now obscured by C19 stairs; remains of springing of arch, plastered chamfer over stairs. Western half-bay: blocked opening, possibly of direct exit to Orford Hill, making the undercroft unique amongst domestic examples in Norwich.

Listing NGR: TG2310308329