Harvey House

WYMONDHAM

TG1001 DAMGATE STREET 655-1/10/63 (West side) 14/07/72 Nos.20 AND 22 Harvey House

GV II

House with part of north end divided as a shop. Late C15 hall house, much altered and with many additions. Late C18 facade. Partly timber-framed. Colourwashed brick facade with pantiles, black-glazed to No.22. C20 half-glazed door to No.22, flanked by one 4-light timber cross casement each side, both late C20. Door has a timber case with a flat hood over a dentil frieze. 2 sashes to first floor with glazing bars, set within exposed boxes. No.20 with late C19 glazed shop front with timber hood. Above are 2 similar sashes to No.22. Gabled roof with internal gable-end stacks, that to north set in from gable and placed west of ridge on rear roof slope. Rear and interior reveals plan as an L-shaped town plan with hall placed to south of small courtyard in an extension running west. Hall range terminates in a stepped gable. West of this is an C18 addition with the north side now glazed in. At west of this is a c1750 block placed at right angles. West side of front range to street and north side of former hall range now with C20 brickwork. North side of courtyard with various additions. Garage to west with re-used crenellated bridging beam. INTERIOR. Main door leads to passage with an inner doorway formed of sunk quadrant-moulded jambs (only one remaining). This probably early C17. South ground-floor room with chamfered bridging beams. Winder staircase to west of stack re-formed to drop into former hall range. A timber 4-centred arch, now blocked and probably one of a pair, set into east wall of hall range. First floor with tie beams on arched braces. Roof at this point not accessible. Roof of west block of taper-tenoned butt purlins.

Listing NGR: TG1088401440