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16-18 Old Market Place
Don’t be fooled by the rather lovely late Victorian or Edwardian front to this building. The range you see today fronting on to the Old...


4-6 Broad Street
Locally known as the Old Bank House, don’t be mis-led by the Georgian exterior – this house is old, very old! There are records going...


9 Broad Street
This was an old house – a very old house that extended a long way back from the gabled end we can see in the old pictures taken from the...


18 Broad Street
Back in 1838 this building, and the others in the range along Broad Street, were owned by a John Chapman. The left hand end – now...


27-29 The Thoroughfare
Another of those deceptive buildings in Harleston, the front corner of this building is a rare and classic mid Victorian butcher’s shop. ...


3-7 The Thoroughfare
The block of buildings adjacent to an old Hall House fronting on to the marketplace and standing on the footprint of what is now the...


6 Market Place
This was an old house – a very old house that extended a long way back from the gabled end we can see in the old pictures taken from the...


22-24 London Road
November 1976. Listed, Grade II. Nos 22 and 24 London Road form a single two-storey 16th- or 17th-century timber-framed building faced in...


16-18 Old Market Place
16 and 18 Old Market Place form part of one of the oldest buildings in town with some of the rear wing dating back to before 1400! In...


History of the Church
There are many surviving mediaeval wooden lecterns in English country churches, St Mary’s itself has one, made from oak, but metal...


20-24 Old Market Place
This building has been featured in this walk to represent all the other, numerous buildings in this town that hide their true age behind...


6 Church Street
A 17thC Building with later bay window. Over the years a Spicers, ‘The Plough’, a Pork Butchers, a Tea Shop then a chippy the building...


7 Church Street
Now combined with No 5, this 17th C building housed 2 businesses in the Victorian Era. The steep roof indicates originally thatched....


2-4 The Thoroughfare
Before 1600 this was variously ‘The White Hart’ or the 'White Horse', the Market Bell rang from the adjoining chapel and Tolls were...


3-7 The Thoroughfare
Two premises in one 17th C building, the left-hand side lost its upper floor when the ceiling was raised for a new plate glass window...


15 The Thoroughfare
Between the chemists and the bakery we find Old Post office Yard, for many years Lillistone’s Yard named for the Bakers that stood on the...


21 The Thoroughfare
You might assume Georgian or Victorian but that raised pediment and expanse of glass hide a 17thC interior still visible inside today. No...


27 The Thoroughfare
One of the few of our buildings revealing its age from the outside! The Ancient House has been known as Brimstone Tenemants, school,...


35 The Thoroughfare
A butcher’s shop for at least 200 years, the trade continues unbroken on this site. This would have been an open fronted shop when it...


25 Broad Street
This was a C16 pub for cattle market travellers. In C18 an extra floor was added, that's why it is higher than the neighbours....
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