Nos. 39 And 41 (The Festival House)

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/12/2012

TG 2308 NW 16/698 5.6.72

ST ANDREW'S STREET (north side) Nos 39 and 41 (The Festival House)

(Formerly listed with No 37)

GV II*

No 39:- Former shop incorporated into No 41, The Festival House public house with Medieval undercroft below. C19 building above with C20 alter- ations. Red brick and pantile roof. 4 storeys. 3 bays. Central panelled door with panelled pilasters supporting plain architrave. Corner pub-front to No 41 with corner door and round-arched glazing bars. Recessed door at left side. 3-light first-floor casement at left side with pilasters and consoles supporting hood. Sash windows elsewhere with glazing bars, vertical only in lower sash on 1st and 2nd floors. Tall pub sign on each corner face. Paired modillion cornice. The interior continues into No 6 St George's Street. Interior: Undercroft, below No 41 (The Festival House). C15. Brick vaults with flint walls up to springing level. Modern rendering and paint cover the two eastern bays and the northern half of the adjoining bay to the west. 4 bays. Each bay has quadripartite vaulting with double order ribs and there is a noticeable difference in size between the two eastern and western bays. The north wall of the two eastern bays of the undercroft have been thickened and the present entry into the undercroft in the eastern bay, from the C17 cellar to the north, is modern. This replaced an earlier opening between the C15 undercroft and C17 cellar although subsequent rendering of the walls makes it difficult to ascertain the exact status or date of this opening. The building is listed II* because of the undercroft that is one of an important group of medieval undercrofts within the city walls.

Listing NGR: TG2311308756