Tudor Hall

Tudor Hall is a building that originally served as offices and a showroom and is now a nightclub. It was constructed between 1898 and 1900, incorporating earlier elements from other locations. Designed by Thomas Plaford for Boulton and Paul as their headquarters, the building features rendered and colourwashed brick with roofs made of plain tiles, sheet metal, and pantiles, all in a Tudor style.

The structure is two storeys high, with part of it having an attic. The front facing Rose Lane has a gable and consists of a single-window range featuring a 6-light mullion and transom window with arched lights, set in a jettied section. Above this, there is a further jettied gable with a 9-light window, timber framing, and decorated bargeboards and a finial. The ground floor has an entrance to the centre left, a 4-light window to the right, a single-light window to the left, and a similar window on the canted corner.

The main part of the front facing Boulton Street has a long gallery-like mullion and transom window on the first floor, containing a total of 23 diamond lattice lights. The ground floor features an entrance to the left, a narrow 9-light window to the far left, and a 7-light and a single-light window to the right. The roof includes two gabled dormers with decorated bargeboards, finials, and pendants, and an octagonal lantern with an ogee roof and finial sits on the ridge.

At the rear, lower two-storey wings have additional Tudor-style windows and a doorway. Inside, there is a staircase with turned balusters and moulded newels, moulded doors and architraves, and a ceiling with finely moulded and canted tiebeams rising from moulded corbels, along with moulded wallplates and decorative window surrounds. Another ceiling features crossbeams and a cornice decorated with plasterwork.

Historically, this building was designed as the headquarters for Boulton and Paul by Thomas Plaford, their in-house architect, who designed many of their prefabricated buildings. It incorporates features from early Norwich houses, including a doorway, window, roof timbers, and a moulded ceiling.