Sewell Conservation Area Appraisal Number 6 January 2010 Conservation Areas in Norwich

SEWELL CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL NUMBER 6 JANUARY 2010 CONSERVATION AREAS IN NORWICH:

1. CITY CENTRE 2. BRACONDALE 3. NEWMARKET ROAD 4. HEIGHAM GROVE 5. THORPE 6. SEWELL 7. EATON 8. TROWSE MILLGATE 9. EARLHAM 10.OLD LAKENHAM 11.BOWTHORPE 12.MILE CROSS 13.THORPE HAMLET 14.THORPE RIDGE 15.UNTHANK & CHRISTCHURCH 16.HELLESDON VILLAGE 17.ST MATTHEW’S

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INTRODUCTION NATURAL CHARACTER 04 22 HISTORIC MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ENHANCEMENT 06 25 URBAN DESIGN AND APPENDICES STREETSCAPE 11 29 ARCHITECTURE 16

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The Sewell conservation area (formerly known as the Ash Grove conservation area) was designated on 2 January 1979. The boundary was extended and the name changed on 5 May 1992, but the area was subsequently reduced in size on 18 September 2003 following the de-designation of Ash Grove and an area to the north of the school. The conservation area lies to the north of the city and covers an area of 8.8ha (32.4 acres).

The appraisal provides an assessment The conservation area lies to the The conservation area can be divided of the character and appearance of north of the city with the land into five sub areas, as indicated on the Sewell conservation area, and includes sloping gently southwards towards adjacent map. The character of each proposals for management and the mediaeval city walls and the area is described in more detail in enhancement. This fulfils section 69 River Wensum beyond. The area the following sections, followed by and 71 of the Planning (Listed Building is dominated by the large mature a programme of management and and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. trees and open grassed space of enhancement proposals on page 25. Sewell Park, which forms the The appraisal was subject to public centrepiece around which houses The appraisal will be used by the city consultation in September 2009 and were developed during the 19th council to help determine planning was adopted by the city council’s and early 20th centuries, lining the applications affecting the conservation executive on 27 January 2010. two historically important routes area, and will be taken into account It should be read in conjunction into the city. by the Planning Inspectorate when with the City of Norwich local considering planning appeals. plan 2004 (in particular Chapter 3, Heritage and the built environment), detailed guidance and site specific development briefs.

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The present day character of the area was established during the residential development of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Before this the area was dominated by the Sewell Estate and Sprowston Lodge amid country lanes and a windmill.

The Sewell family lived in Clare House, which was described in the Norfolk Chronicle on 10th July 1841 as being “A substantial mansion built in a simple and unostentatious style of architecture having a neaty front of white brick, handsome portico and the entire exterior to correspond, standing in a pleasure ground and lawn, tastefully laid out and planted with choice shrubs and ornamental The opening of trees, having a handsome iron Sewell Park on Palisade fence on the north and east 6 July 1908 (© Norfolk sides. In front of the house is an County Council) Enclosure of Fine Land, part pasture and part arable, containing 7a 2r 24p Constitution Hill, which forms of the city was largely undeveloped commanding a fine panoramic view the backbone of the area, is the and very rural in character. of the city.” continuation of Magdalen Road, the main street northward out of the city. At the beginning of the c19th Philip Sewell’s sister Anna Sewell (1820- The Magdalen Gates, which form the Sewell Estate was established 78) was the author of the international part of the city wall some distance between St Clements Hill and best seller, Black Beauty. She was born to the south of the conservation Constitution Hill. This included a in Great Yarmouth and died and was area, were first mentioned in 1272, landscaped garden known as Wren buried at Lamas. Her novel, which testifying to the ancient nature of Park. In 1908 the estate was divided highlights cruelty to horses in mid- the thoroughfare. This gate was the up and the park was dedicated to Victorian England, was reputedly based last to be demolished in 1808 and the city and called ‘Sewell Park’, on a horse in her brother’s stable at this time the land to the north following the wishes of Philip Sewell.

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which must have been close to the present location of, or actually the present day, Sewell Barn Theatre.

In many ways the overall character of the area we see today owes a great deal to the shaping force of the Sewell family. The fountain and horse trough at the south entrance to the park and a commemorative window in the north transept of the church are eloquent testimony to their philanthropy. Sewell Park, north end Philip Sewell was born in 1822. He looking west became an engineer and was of some note both for his work and as a local dignitaries. The park was declared Nearby small terraced houses benefactor. It was his wish that the open by Miss Margaret Sewell. surrounded a corn grinding southern part of his estate, formally windmill. This area has now all opened by his family for treats on Until the 1880s the rest of the area been redeveloped, but the mill is Thursday afternoons, should become was largely undeveloped with only recalled by the place name of the a park for the citizens of Norwich. a few large detached houses, quiet roads: Millcroft, Millers Lane and Following his death in February 1906 his lanes, trees and meadows. the area known as Mill Hill. sisters and the then Mayor, E.G. Buxton, worked to bring this into being. Denmark Road, then known as Little seems to have been recorded Church Lane, was only partly built up, of Sprowston Lodge except that it The land was presented by Mr Edward with its northern side bounded by the was described as a “large white brick Sewell and the Misses Sewell who large grounds of Sprowston Lodge. building”. Its grounds were entirely gave £260 towards the laying out The grounds of the Lodge continued developed with the present houses of the grounds. There was good as far north as Ash Grove. before WWI, but the name of the weather for the opening ceremony former gardener, Thomas Tillett lives on 6 July 1908 and it was reported St Clements Hill was only partially on in the road name Tillett Road. that hundreds of people attended, developed with substantial houses amongst whom were the Mayor opposite the grounds of Clare House, Walter Rye, The Sheriff and local the family home of the Sewell Estate.

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Commemorative plaque to Philip Sewell marking Thatched pavilion demolished in 1970s A Magdalen Road tramcar (© Norfolk County the opening of the park in 1908. Council)

In 1929 the Blyth School (now Sewell The houses lining the east side remarkably unscathed so that it Park College) was built, redeveloping of Sewell Park along Constitution retains a high degree of completeness the remainder of the Sewell Estate. Hill were built in the late 1890s and does not now exhibit the effects Clare House, the family home, and the map of 1906 shows us that of later infill which characterise many remained as a part of the school the area was by then established other areas of the city. but was demolished in the 1970s to as we see it today. allow for further development when The group comprising the church, the school became comprehensive. It is remarkable that having been sunday school, Whalebone public developed almost exclusively within house and its malthouse, remains little Also demolished was a large thatched the 19th century the area has been changed. This has long been a busy pavilion serving tennis courts to so little altered in the last 100 years, junction; only the nature and quantity the north of the school. The only with the exception of the multi- of the traffic and the equipment used remaining building from the time of phased development of the school. to manage it, will have changed the Sewell Estate is the barn which throughout the 20th century. From has become the Sewell Barn Theatre. During WWII parts of the school the Depot on Sprowston Road The base of the barn is likely to be the were damaged by bombs and blasts. a tram line, which was constructed oldest construction in the conservation Pelham Road and Roseberry Road in 1898-9 and opened on 30 July area, with the possible exception of also suffered considerable damage, 1900, passed along Denmark Street some flint boundary walls. however in general the area remained on its way to the city.

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Sewell is characterised by two main phases of early and late 19th century suburban development of housing lining two routes into the city centre. These converge at the southern end of the area forming a triangular space occupied by the park. Large mature trees, both within the park, the school grounds and in the surrounding private gardens, give a predominantly green and established appearance to the area. This is in marked contrast to both the tightly grained urban environment to the south of the area and the open, less densely developed area to the north.

Although the tram has long since The busy road junction at the gone, the area is still busy with traffic southern end of the park is the active and pedestrians passing through the hub of the conservation area and area along Constitution Hill. forms sub area A. It contains the church, former sunday school, now Thomas Fuller said that “Norwich church hall and the public house with is either a city in an orchard or an its associated historic malthouse. orchard in a city, so equally are the houses and trees blended in it; so that These represent the built amenities the pleasure of the country and the and social focus of the area and have populousness of the city meet here been included because, although the together. Yet in this mixture, the streetscape is not currently of the inhabitants participate nothing of the highest quality, the key buildings rusticalness of the one but altogether remain little altered and are good, Glimpsed views of Christ Church of the urbanity and civility of the typical examples of their age, type, other.” Although written in the 19th design and materials. Indeed the church has a working century the townscape quality of the clock, but few would see it to consult Sewell area reflects his comments The church and school are set the time. In contrast to the busy streets even today as the spaces between back from the road so that they the buildings and the trees continue the churchyard provides a calm green do not dominate the street scene. to lend the area an air of dignity. oasis. The area has two memorials:

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The area adjacent to the malthouse, and gates define the two northern which was formerly a row of small entrances. The original park boundary terraced houses, is now a gap site is likely to have been iron railings, currently used for informal parking. such as these. The marble water Residential development is planned. trough which stands outside the south entrance is not given the townscape Development which reflects the recognition it deserves, surrounded massing and design of adjacent as it is by street clutter, materials and 19th century building will be a definition of space of indifferent quality. suitable addition to the area and the opportunity should be taken The park and surrounding houses to improve the poor quality paving are on elevated ground. This may be and removing the unsightly evidence that these routes are very Fountain and horse trough advertising hoardings. ancient, worn down over the centuries to leave higher ground on each side. Sewell Park and the houses which Alternatively the steep gradient of in the church yard lies a war memorial face the park on Constitution Hill St Clements Hill and Constitution Hill and at the entrance to the park a and St Clements Hill form sub area B. may have been reduced in the 19th memorial to Anna Sewell in the form Sewell Park is a green open public century when the area was developed of a simple marble fountain and space and forms the centrepiece to assist horse drawn traffic to trough with the inscription in 1917, of the conservation area. manage the steep hills. This has “This fountain was placed here by resulted in the need for retaining Ada Sewell in memory of her Aunt Mature trees, coniferous and walls. These are constructed in brick, Anna Sewell and her sister Edith deciduous, stand mainly near the flint (sometimes bitumen covered) Sewell, two lovers of animals”. perimeter which is bounded by a low and blockwork and are an important flint retaining wall to the west and feature of the area. This part of the conservation area is concrete blockwork to the east. The marred by the presence of overhead wall is topped by modern standard There are attractive views into the wires. The area which once formed galvanised steel fence which has park from all sides and from within the playground to the school is now replaced wire fencing since 1992. the park there are commanding views used for parking and is of poor over the city, including the cathedral townscape quality, but capable A modern set of iron gates of some spire, the castle, particularly from of enhancement. quality marks the southern and main the north end and the towers of entrance whilst original decorative City Hall, Peter Mancroft and nearby iron bollards and plain iron railings St Giles Church.

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The houses which overlook the park were all developed over the 20 years from 1890. All are characteristically set far back from the road with a very broad, graciously proportioned pavement edged by granite kerb stones. Brick retaining walls with a coffer detail form property boundaries and the building line is close to the boundary giving only shallow front gardens with steps up to the front doors.

There are views into and out of Views looking south along Constitution Hill Views looking into the conservation area from toward the city centre. north along St Clements Hill. the conservation area along streets of terraced houses, which are contemporary with those within Sub area D is the top part of In common with other houses in the the area. St Clements Hill which comprises road the houses share a common the west entrance to the school building line, although they vary Sub area C comprises the school and the early 19th century houses more in their design. The footway is and its grounds. The school on the west side of the road. considerably narrower and shaded by buildings of 1929 dominate trees on both sides of the road. Front the brow of the hill and form The area adjacent to the west gardens are bounded by walls and a focal point. entrance to the school and the north hedges contributing to an enclosed west entrance to the park is of poor tunnel like atmosphere. There are The relationship between the school streetscape value, marred by a poorly glimpses of the cathedral spire in and its generous green open spaces detailed traffic management scheme. views to the south. The school and mature trees is an important This intervention is at odds with the grounds adjoin the east boundary part of the townscape character and setting. In contrast with the houses to the road and are bounded by a good views of the school façade can lower down St Clements Hill, those long flint retaining wall, which gives be gained from the north park. above the Millcroft turning are a sense of tidy uniformity to the characterised as being set well back view along the road. Its texture from the footway with generous front contrasts pleasingly with the brick gardens, many containing mature trees. of the houses opposite. A Cedar of Lebanon and a large Beech are notable examples in the street scene.

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The side elevation of the school The houses which line the east side side, but it is possible that the road is glimpsed through mature trees. of the road are mainly semi-detached was widened and the earlier flint wall with a regular building line set back replaced in utilitarian blockwork. Sub area E is formed by the from the footway to give small front top part of Constitution HiIl. gardens generally set behind brick The character of the road is strongly Although the buildings from boundary walls and hedges. Plot dictated by the large number of Tillett Road northward are roughly widths are similar to those on the vehicles passing through. But contemporary with the top part upper part of St Clements Hill but are nevertheless there is a marked of St Clements Hill, they are more wider than those of the houses facing change on entering the conservation varied in architecture, considerably the park. Trees on the east side of the area from the north imparted by the busier in character and more open school grounds include beech, but architecture, trees and green spaces in their aspect. are mainly pines and cast little shade. with glimpses of the City Hall tower It is not clear why the wall on this side in the distance. of the park is not flint like the other

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Residential development dates from the 19th and early 20th centuries which gives the conservation area a harmonious character and appearance. The most notable exception is Sewell Park College which is a very prominent building within the area.

Right: 92 St Clements Hill

Far right: Terraces on Constitution Hill facing Sewell Park

The oldest surviving historic building The architectural character of The later houses are terraced, is the charming Star Cottage on the area is dictated by rows with the exception of the fine 34 Constitution Hill, which dates of Victorian villas which are St Clements Hill and the houses at from 1800. The church dates from representative of the period 20 and 22 Constitution Hill which were 1841-2 and the former Sunday in terms of architectural design built as a pair of detached houses and School dates from 1850. The largest and appearance. later joined with infill buildings which and most dominant building in are easy to see. The earlier houses are the area is Sewell Park College, The character of the earlier houses more varied in design and material, constructed in1929. to the north of St Clements Hill and more usually semi-detached; tending Constitution Hill is a little different to be squarer in proportion; often from that of the later houses to the with a shallower pitched roof and south, which overlook the park. frequently having small pane windows.

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80 St Clements Hill 86/88 Constitution Hill Star Cottage

The later houses are taller in relation A few earlier houses are finished in The house at 82/84 Constitution Hill to their width; typically terraced and render but the majority are of two dates from c1800 and is listed grade II. have large pane windows. Most storey red brick under slate roofs It is also known as Chaumiere de houses are brick built, mainly red brick of 35° slopes. Some houses have L’Etolie, which translates as Star but occasionally with white gault clay. traditional clay pantiles, some glazed. Cottage (1). It is designed as an Many have ornamentation in special Unfortunately a number of traditional, ornamental cottage or cottage orne bricks to form decorative eaves, sills natural roof coverings have been in the French fashion and modelled and window and door surrounds. replaced with large heavy concrete in knapped flint with brick and tiles. Almost all houses have however stone dressings. The word chaumiere Some show fine craftsmanship in retained their chimney stacks and pots actually translates as thatched cottage, the fineness of the jointing and the so that these form a characteristic and however the shallow roof pitch and precision of the gauged brickwork regular punctuation to the skyline. detailing make it very unlikely that this over the doors and windows. Of building was ever thatched. Although particular note are the good number There are exceptions to the it uses local materials, in design it is of original front doorways which general age and style of housing unique in the conservation area. One have survived and the number of of the area which together make theory is that it may have been built original windows. a very positive contribution to the by or for émigrés fleeing the turmoil architectural character. of the French Revolution.

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Sewell Barn Theatre Christ Church Former Church School

As has been noted, the history of The parish church of Christ Church (3), church architecture. Pevsner describes the area is very much bound up with listed Grade II, dates from 1840 and the church as “having a heavy the Sewell family estate. The only was designed by John Brown (1805- bellcote and heavy pinnacles”. substantial surviving element of the 76). With expanding populations and estate is the building now known as newly developed areas the 1830s saw Internally the church is painted and the Sewell Barn Theatre (2). This is the beginning of a great period of quite plain, but relieved by a memorial still recognisably of agricultural origin restoration of old churches and building south window dedicated to Philip with its use as a barn visible by size, of new ones in the city and county. Sewell, who apart from being the proportions and windowless walls. John Brown made a major contribution local benefactor, was also a church It is brick built with the lower courses to this expansion of church provision warden for 28 years. clearly of some antiquity. The Sewell as he was both County and Diocesan Barn Theatre Trust, set up for Surveyor and in his county capacity The adjacent former church school (4) performing arts, was opened in was involved in the majority of was designed by J S Benest and A October 1979, transforming the official buildings from 1840-1860; Newsom in 1850 in a whimsical building, according to a report in there are several other listed gothic style in materials to match the EDP from a “leaky, dust filled buildings in the city designed by the church. These buildings, together old barn”. The building dominates the architect in a similar style. with the war memorial (5) and the entrance to the area on entering boundary walls form a group, which Constitution Hill. The scale and massing The church is constructed in flint with lend a particular sense of stylistic of the new buildings do not adversely white gault brick dressings in what gravitas and permanence to this affect the setting of Sewell Barn, and has been called the Lancet style, loosly corner of the conservation area. can be considered to be neutral. based on the style of early English

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Sewell Park School The Whalebone public house

The school, now Sewell Park College (6) building in the conservation area and was built in 1929 as the Blyth School for dates from between 1840 and 1880. Girls. The original school building is a The malting process involves wetting stately, symmetrical neo-classical brick barley grains and keeping them warm building with stone details and a plain and ventilated on an open floor until tile steeply pitched roof and a long they start to sprout. They are then façade dominating the crest of the roasted ready to be used in beer hill overlooking the park. It is built on making. It is not known if any of a figure of eight plan enclosing two the malting floor survives but small courtyards and has great presence within industrial buildings of this kind are the conservation area. Yet, despite thought to be uncommon in Norfolk. being of a marked change in scale, it compliments its setting by being of Given the close proximity of this building similar materials and storey heights with to the public house we may surmise that the rhythm of bays recalling those of The Whalebone brewed its own beer 1. Christ Church clocktower the surrounding terraced houses. on the premises in the 19th century. 2. 68 Constitution Hill 3. 82/84 Constitution Hill 4. 82/84 Constitution Hill The Whalebone public house (7) is in The corner building at 103, Roseberry 5. Sewell Park College many ways the archetypical Victorian Road is a former post office, marked 6. 20 St Clements Hill corner pub, two storey with a corner on the 1906 map. It is now and 7. 82 St Clements Hill entrance, now blocked. The adjacent possibly always was the only shop 8. 2 Constitution Hill Malthouse (8) is the only industrial building in the conservation area. 9. 34 St Clements Hill

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The trees and green open spaces of Sewell Park make a significant contribution to the character of the conservation area. Together with the many mature trees and private gardens nearby, the park also provides an important habitat for wildlife. It is possible that some of the mature trees are older than the oldest buildings within the conservation area and so act as an important reminder of its more rural past, and also provides Sewell Park hints of the designed landscape of the former Sewell Estate.

Sewell Park is owned and managed by The park is characterised by large Private gardens and the grounds the city council and forms the heart of mature trees, both deciduous and of the school and Christ Church the conservation area. It is visible from coniferous, set in open areas of close graveyard also contain large mature both Constitution Hill and St cut grass, including good examples trees which make very positive Clements Hill and makes an important of mature London Planes. The area contributions to the character of contribution to the views approaching to the north of the park, which the area. Of particular note is the from the south, particularly the once contained a serpentine path magnificent Cedar of Lebanon at entrance which is framed by six and bedding plants, is now much 76, St Clements Hill, the Beech tree flowering cherry trees. The park has simplified and contains largely non at 96a, and the row of Oak trees provided an important recreational native ornamental shrubs and a series in the school grounds opposite. resource since 1908 and continues to of mature Scotts Pines. These form an be a well used and well maintained attractive foreground feature with the public space. façade of the school as a backdrop.

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A high proportion of houses within To the north of the area the school the area have gardens both back grounds provide open areas of grass and front. The modern house at and trees for amenity space for the 36St Clements Hill, South View, children to enjoy. has an exceptionally large mature garden. Frontages are typically There has been some planting of bounded by hedges. These make young trees in the park but there an important contribution to the is an opportunity to ensure that the character of the area and provide policy of providing a good range of varied wildlife habitats. Together ages and species is followed here with the many mature trees and with more systematic successional shrubs, they give the street a cooler, planting so that as the existing trees shadier microclimate which contrasts go past their maturity others are with the more urban character of well established to take their place. Constitution Hill Magdalen Road to the south. There is also an opportunity to The churchyard of Christ Church at manage some of the park in such the junction of Denmark Road and a way as to increase biodiversity Magdalen Road is an area with several and nurture plants which support mature silver birch trees where shade bees, moths and butterflies, for loving species may thrive. The grave example by altering the moving stones also provide a suitable habitat regimes and introducing pollen for mosses and litchens to become rich meadow species, perhaps in established. the wide margins around the park.

Cedar of Lebanon – St Clements HIll

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The city council has a duty to enhance Enhancement of the conservation area (S) Short term the character and appearance of the also depends on the care that individual Straightforward enhancement conservation area where possible. The owners take with the maintenance proposals, which should be following table highlights opportunities and repair of their properties and relatively easy to achieve or to improve the management of the due consideration to preserving and are included in existing work conservation area and to carry out enhancing the conservation area when programmes enhancement. Inclusion on the list carrying out alterations to their properties. is not a commitment by the council The list therefore also identifies (M)Medium term Involves some expenditure to undertake the work and further opportunities for private owners. and/or complexity work will be required to establish the feasibility of these proposals. Each After five years the appraisal will be (L) Long term opportunity has been identified as reviewed to see whether the character Complex proposals involving a short, medium or long term goal and appearance of the conservation larger financial commitments reflecting its cost and complexity. area has been successfully enhanced and to assess whether new opportunities are available.

No. Location Issue Action Term Responsibility

1 Main Sewell Utilitarian park Renew railings and L Highways Park entrance railings and surfacing with more footway surfacing appropriate materials around the and designs. commemorative Consider options for horse/cattle the trough including trough. Poor re-introducing water. planting and Rationalise traffic signs maintenance of trough and clutter of signs

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No. Location Issue Action Term Responsibility

2 Site of former Open, informal parking Bring forward suitable S-M Owner and St Clements and large advertising development of the Norwich City Garage hoardings and site for residential or Council concrete slab surfacing commercial use. Include adjacent to footway suitable landscaping and surfacing

3 Parking area The former Consider ways of L Owner/Church for church Sunday/infant school improving boundary of England hall playground, now a appearance to enclose car car park, has weak park and provide a more townscape value and positive street frontage fails to compliment the adjacent Victorian Gothic architecture of Christ Church and church hall

4 St Clements Broad footway and Re-design to discourage M Highways/ Hill low curb height pavement parking residents encouraging parking on the pavement. Visually intrusive in front of generously proportioned Victorian terraces and semi detached houses

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No. Location Issue Action Term Responsibility

5 Traffic Poor quality design Redesign and re-new L Highways management and damaged railings with suitable materials scheme, top along road side park and school entrance on St Clements Hill

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Additions to the local list. APPENDIX A APPENDIX B Constitution Hill Sewell Barn Theatre The following buildings have been The following buildings within the C19th (possibly some C18th?) listed Grade II either because of conservation area are included on the Red brick. Pantile roof. their architectural interest, their local list for their architectural and/or Importance: Former agricultural historic interest, their close historical historical importance. These buildings building associated with historic use of association or because they form are valued for their contribution to site with connections to Anna Sewell. part of an important group. the local scene, or for local historical associations, but do not merit full Magdalen Road Constitution Hill statutory protection. The local list Church Hall (former School) 82-84, Chaumiere de L’Etoile is due to be updated. 1850. Former Church School now Church Hall by Benest. 19th Gothic Magdalen Road revival with flint walls, white brick Christ Church (includes war memorial) Constitution Hill and stone detailing to windows. 2-52 (even) Slate 'fishtail' roof. 68-74 (even) Importance: Forms part of a group 88-96 (even) with Christ Church. 104-110 (even) Horse/Cattle Trough and fountain St Clements Hill (south entrance to Sewell Park) Blyth Jex School 1917. Commemorative street Whalebone public house furniture erected by Ada Sewell 14-30 (even) for her aunts Anna and Edith 32,34 Sewell 'lovers of animals'. Triangular 60,62,64 design constructed of granite. 74,76,78 Importance: Historic street furniture 80,82 commemorating the Sewell sisters 84,86,88 (one of whom was the author of 90,92 the novel 'Black Beauty'.) 94,96 St Clements Hill Pelham Road Maltings (former St Clements 2 Garage) C19. Former maltings. Red brick sides Roseberry Road with white weatherboard frontage. 140 Pantile Roof. Importance: Of historical industrial A full list with descriptions can be significance and group value with viewed at www.norwich.gov.uk adjacent Whalebone PH.

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