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North Walsham Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management PlanThe Baroque influence is particularly evident on the façade of 44 Market Place, which hasstucco-work columns at first and second floor levels with Corinthian capitals. Another featurewhich may draw its inspiration from the Baroque style is the practice of detailing a centralwindow to make a strong focal point.The top floor windows of North Walsham’s town houses tend to be smaller than those onthe other floors, but this is probably more due to their lack of importance rather than anysystem of classical proportions. Where ground floors survive, the windows tend to be thesame size as those on the first floor.Georgian window arches are often formed from “cut and rubbed” gauged brick, a techniquederived from stone working, where the surfaces were rubbed to create a thin joint. In Norfolkthis practice seems to have continued until the close of the 19th century.While classical styles were in widespread use for 18th - early 19th century town houses, itis unlikely that vernacular building styles died out. Less prestigious buildings hidden awayfrom public gaze probably continued to be built using traditional methods, such as the smalleroutbuildings now to be found in the Bank Loke car park.Figure 54 : 6 Grammar School RoadMid – Late VictorianHouses from the early-mid Victorian period tend to be relatively conservative, often continuingRegency styles. 6 Grammar School Road is probably mid Victorian, but includes a classicallyinfluenced doorcase typical of earlier buildings.One house on the corner of Grammar School road has “constructional polychrome” decorationcharacteristic of the mid-Victorian era, where white and vitrified blue-black bricks have beenused to decorate the red brickwork.Brick production continued in North Walsham during the Victorian and Edwardian periods.With the coming of the railways, North Walsham could also be supplied with a wide rangeof building materials from further afield.8, 8a,10 & 12 King’s Arms Street show some of the range of materials available to the laterVictorian builder. No 10 is a private house decorated with ornamental brick. The classicaldoor surround here reflects not the town’s Georgian/Regency past, but the influence of thefashionable “Queen Anne Revival”. The shops to the north have similarly decorative fronts.The moulded, or ornamental brickwork includes string and eaves courses and ball finials.The window arches are of cut and rubbed brick. No. 8a has red sandstone detailing, includinga well carved door lintel, while 10 and 12 have limestone details.58North Norfolk District Council
North Walsham Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management PlanSlate was now readily available for roofs, and where clay tiles were used, they were likelyto be plain tiles rather than pantiles. It is possible that “triple Roman” tiles were also used atthis time.Within the conservation area, there are two chapels in the Gothic Revival style. They aredetailed with a variety of ornamental brick, both white and red in colour.Render had generally fallen out of favour after the Regency period, but was reintroduced inthe later Victorian era, partly as a result of the Old English and Queen Anne Revival styles.No 6 Market Place, has lower floors of red brick, with a rendered top storey.Figure 55 : Bank. Late Victorian or EdwardianBaroque.At numbers 21 & 22 Market Place is a Victorian building with a renewed classical influence.This stucco-fronted building is in the “palazzo” style, and probably owes its appearance tothe new enthusiasm for the Baroque at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Thestyle was seen to express the grandeur of the empire. In provincial towns it was generallyused for official buildings such as banks and post offices.The later years of the 19th century saw a great interest in vernacular building styles andtechniques, leading to what became known as the Arts & Crafts movement. A formertelephone exchange in King’s Arms Street was built by local builders Cornish & Gaymer ina strong “local vernacular” style. It has knapped flint walls with brick quoins, crow steppedgables and a variety of casement windows set in mullion and transom frames. Thearrangement of windows has a deliberate asymmetry, designed to enhance the house’spicturesque qualities.North Walsham’s best late Victorian architecture is unfortunately outside the conservationarea. The infant and junior schools on Hall Lane are good examples of the Gothic Revivaland Queen Anne Revival. To the south of Grammar School Road, Late Victorian/Edwardianvillas on the south side of Yarmouth Road show a range of Domestic Revival and Arts &Crafts influences.Inter-war and post warThere is little distinctive architecture from between the wars in the conservation area. TheRoman Catholic church on King’s Arms Street is a striking design of 1935 by local buildersCornish and Gaymer, constructed entirely of red brickNorth Norfolk District Council59
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