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North Walsham Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management PlanSignageWithin the centre, a definite attempt seems to have been made to keep traffic signs smallscale and unobtrusive. In Market Place, larger signs are only to be found at the east andwest ends, and there are a limited number of large signs along Market St. Outside the centre,as one would expect, signage tends to be concentrated at road junctions.The least appealing areas of the public realm are the car parks, particularly the car park onBank Loke. This car park interrupts several older lanes. The result is disjointed areas ofpavement set within larger areas of tarmac. Within this are set occasional freestandingstreetlights, CCTV cameras and ticket machines.On a more positive note, some pleasing details enliven the pubic realm within the centre,such as the old K2 telephone box on Church St, and the Edwardian post box set into thewall at the west end of Market St.Figure 47 : Kett’s House, Mundesley Road6.5 Local details, styles and building materialsVernacular buildingsEarly houses in North Walsham would have been timber frames, clay lump, or flint cobbleswith locally made brick dressings. Roofs would have been of thatch or perhaps pantiles. Asmost early buildings were destroyed by a fire, which swept thorough the town in 1600, littleif anything survives from before the 17th century apart from the church, which combines flintcobbles with Barnack stone.Kett’s House on Mundesley Road has part of a timber frame from the 17th century, and isthe only early building which still has a thatched roof. It has a later brick front, however, sothat much of its original appearance is lost.52North Norfolk District Council
North Walsham Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management PlanFigure 48 : Coursed and uncoursed flint usedwith brick, Bank Loke car park.Figure 49 : 3 Market Place. A refrontedhouse where the roof pitch has beenchanged.There are few examples of flint being used for wall construction in North Walsham. Brickand cobble walls are found as part of houses at 43-5 Market Place and on the north-eastcorner of Aylsham Road. One of the Paston School buildings facing Bank Loke car park hascoursed cobbles at the beginning of the wall, with uncoursed cobbles above. The cobblesare combined with bricks placed end on to help tie the inner and outer layers of the walltogether. At the north west end of Mitre Tavern yard is what may be the small area of an oldbrick and flint wall incorporated into a later building. This example is of particular interest,as it also has galleting, or small flakes of flint, placed into the mortar.It is difficult to date such walls, as brick and cobble construction seems to have changedlittle from the 17th to the mid 19th centuries. Some brick and flint walls may show how partsof earlier houses integrated into later structures, or that some of the Georgian or Regencyhouses with “classical” fronts were, at least in part, constructed of brick and cobbles. It ishard to tell what lies beneath most rendered fronts.North Norfolk District Council53
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