Palace Street
Palace Street Palace Street connects
Tombland to St Martin-at-Palace Plain. At No 23
once stood a timber-framed building deemed to be of the
seventeenth century. The upper floor was slightly jettied
and the entire facade was faced with plaster. Its listing
as Grade 3 under the Housing Act, 1949, did nothing,
unfortunately, to prevent its demolition some years
later.Next door at No 21 the Horse Shoes public house (pictured with No 23), a building of three storeys, seemed much later. In fact it had been re-fronted late in the eighteenth century disguising a seventeenth century core of brick and flint. This too has been demolished. Text and photographs Copyright © G.A.F.Plunkett 2004 |