13-17, ST GILES STREET

TG 2208 NE ST. GILES STREET (north side) 15/749 5.6.72 Nos. 13 to 17 (odd) GV II Former use unknown, now shops with C15 and early C16 undercrofts. Shops:- Early C16 with C18 rear additions. Rendered timber frame. Pantile roof.,2 storey, first floor jettied. 7 irregularly spaced first floor C18 windows. Three C19 shopfronts, each with side door. Off-centre carriage entry. 1st floor sash windows with moulded timber surrounds. 3 gabled dormers. Undercrofts:- Brick. 2 bays ranged at right angles to the street line with heavy, double order diagonal ribs, single cross-rib between bays and shallow side chambers. A C19 wall now divides the 2 bays. Barrel-vaulted passages connect the undercroft to a later chamber at the west end of the buildings having a pointed barrel-vault profile at right-angles to the street line. The latter is one of the very few undercrofts contemporary with the building above. The building-is graded II because of the undercrofts, two of an important group within the City walls.

Listing NGR: TG2283408578