Cinema City

TG 2308 NW ST. ANDREW'S STREET (south side) 16/701 26.5.54 Cinema City (formerly listed as Suckling House and Stuart Hall) GV I Former hall house now cinema and associated rooms and offices. C15 onwards with major addition and alterations of 1925, by Boardman. Flint with brick and stone dressings. Red brick and black pantiles. Single-storey hall with single-storey theatre to the east and a 2-storey wing to the west. C20 door to the left-side of hall with moulded 2-centre surround. Large brick and flint porch built against two mediaeval buttresses with moulded-timber outer archway re-using some C16 timbers. Mediaeval doorway at extreme right with double-order 2-centre stone arch with dripmould. Central casement window in enlarged mediaeval opening. Window above right-side door with brick arched- surround. 1925 extension:- built partly over mediaeval wall. Irregular facade with projecting centre having lower single-storey front. Door at extreme left with moulded surround and segmental pediment. 4 circular windows with keystones. Horizontal rustication and quoins. Moulded brick cornice beneath parapet. 2-bay wing to the west of the hall with sash windows at ground floor with glazing bars and rubbed brick flat arches with keystone. Oval plaque at first floor. Rusticated brick quoins and moulded brick cornice beneath parapet with central stack. St. Andrew's Hill elevation:- 2 storeys. 5 bays to brick-built left-hand section and four first-floor windows in the flint built right-hand section. Left side: door with simply moulded surround and pediment supported on consoles. Sash windows with rubbed brick flat arches with keystone. 4-centre arched window at ground-floor right with intersecting glazing bars. Rusticated pilasters and moulded brick cornice beneath parapet. Right side: door at extreme left with rusticated pilasters and flat hood. Door to the right with rusticated arch. Sash windows at ground floor with moulded surrounds and small hoods. Mullion and transom and casement windows in brick reveal at first-floor. Overhanging eaves. Interior:- 3 bays of brick-built chamber with double-order diagonal ribs. These probably pre-date the hall and are connected to it by two doors, one with an C18 surround attached. The hall has an oriel window on the south side, externally re-built in the early C20. Scissor-brace roof with the middle truss having a crown-post and arch braces. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument. F.R. Beecheno "The Sucklings House at Norwich" Norfolk Archaeology Vol. XIX pp.197 to 220 and Vol.XX pp.158 to 178.

Listing NGR: TG2315008732