Bridewell Museum

TG 2308 NW BRIDEWELL ALLEY (east side) 16/117 26.2.54 Bridewell Museum GV I Former house, now museum. C15 with C18 and C19 alterations. Flint rubble. Knapped flint with stone dressings to north facade. Brick including north wall plinth. Pantile roofs. L-shape plan. North facade:- 2 storeys above plinth and undercrofts. 5 widely spaced first floor windows. 5 paired, 2-centre arch lights with dripstone and chamfered jambs in stone. C18 entry at extreme left with 2-centre brick arch and dripcourse. Re-used mediaeval brick jambs. C20 part glazed doors. First floor windows each with 2 moulded stone ogee arches with mouchette spandrels within square frame. The dripcourse extends down to the tracery springing and continues into stringcourse. Simple C19 box cornice with brick kneelers. The facade was built in 2 phases with the building break between the 2nd and 3rd windows from the right. South facade:- C18 brick facing. 2 storeys plus undercroft. 5 bays. Central panelled door with Doric surround having open pediment. Sash windows throughout with glazing bars and brick segmental arches. West wall of former hall range:- C18 brick facing. 2 storeys plus undercroft. 4 bays. Sash windows throughout with glazing bars and brick segmental arches. Pair of service doors at north end of former hall with chamfered stone jambs and moulded 2-centre arches and remains of dripmould. 2 brick barrel-vaults on ground floor at east end of north range. Extensive series of brick built undercrofts:- heavily built double-order diagonal and cross-ribs with wall arches beneath north range. 3 piers support 10 compartments of quadrapartite vaulting with complex rib patterns beneath former hall. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument. R. Smith and A. Carter, "function and Site: Aspects of Norwich Buildings" Vernacular Architecture, Vol.14, 1983

Listing NGR: TG2310908693