Gibraltar Cafe

The Gibraltar Cafe, located at No. 290 Heigham Street on the corner of Heigham Watering, is a pair of houses likely built in the early 18th century with later alterations. The exterior features roughcast walls with a rendered plinth and a pantiled roof, along with three brick chimneys, one of which is rendered. The building is two storeys high with scattered fenestration. The central entrance consists of a recessed round-headed door with glazing bays, flanked by pilasters in a bolection-moulded doorcase that includes spandrels and rusticated key-blocks. There are gable-fronted wings on both the right and left sides. To the right, there is a panelled (part-glazed) door set in a simple pedimented doorcase. The windows, primarily casements, include a round-headed window above the main door. A damaged sundial is positioned above a flint roundel on the right side of the left wing. The rear gable features kneelers. An early 19th-century extension runs parallel to Heigham Street and is a two-storey structure with three windows, featuring sashes with glazing bars. Although the interior was not inspected during the resurvey, it is noted to contain an 18th-century staircase with three flights, twisted balusters, fluted newels, and a swept moulded rail. The ground floor behind the front door retains original moulded and panelled doors and a fireplace. The ground-floor room in the south-west corner is highlighted by a moulded plaster centre-piece and cornice, a decorated round-headed niche, a moulded architrave doorcase with volutes leading to a broken pediment, and a fireplace adorned with a Vitruvian small frieze and cornice.