Norwich Streets 'M' 'N'  

Magdalen Street
Mansfield Lane
Mariners Lane
Market Avenue
Market Lane
Market Place
Martineau Lane
Mountergate
Muspole Street
Newmarket Road

[ Magdalen Street: 5 (former Bull Inn) to 7 ]

[ Magdalen Street: Thoroughfare Yard view east, view north, Parish boundary plates (St Edmund 1829, St Clement 1821, St Clement 1809) ]

[ Magdalen Street: 29 (probably the residence of Thomas Shipdham - mercer - Sheriff 1620 and Mayor 1631 - spandrels of 17c. doorway “1612” “S.T.F.”), 31 ]

[ Magdalen Street: Gurney Court (here lived the Gurney family - Quakers and bankers - until moving to Earlham hall): late 17c early 18c doorways ]

[ Magdalen Street: 33 to 35, Gurney Court, Loose’s Yard ]

[ Magdalen Street: 47 (Green and Wright’s wine shop), 49 (former Duncan Arms PH), 51 (Queen Victoria PH), Ling’s Court ]

[ Magdalen Street: 53 (plaster stripped from upper storey in 1934 to reveal timber and herringbone brickwork of Middle Ages), 75, 77 (Rose Tavern) to 85, 105 (Cat and Fiddle PH) to 107, Bayfield’s Yard (16c. entrance) ]

[ Magdalen Street: 115 to 117, Addison’s Yard, New Yard ]

[ Magdalen Street: 129 to 135 (White Lion PH), Gilling’s Yard, White Lion Yard ]

[ Magdalen Street: 157 (Red Lion PH), 161 to 165, White Lion Yard ]

[ Magdalen Street: 20 to 22, 24 (Martineau House here were brought up Harriet Martineau - born 1802 - 19c. authoress and James Martineau - born 1805 - doctor of Divinity and Literature and writer in religious philosophy), Warehouses at rear, 26 (Thirtle House - named after John Thirtle one of the Norwich School of artists who had his business here until his death in 1839) ]

[ Magdalen Street: 26 (Thirtle House) to 34 (former Golden Dog PH), 36 to 38, King’s Head Yard (Regency Villa) ]

[ Magdalen Street: 42 (King’s Head PH), 44 to 48: (18c. shop front), 50 to 52 ]

[ Magdalen Street: 62 (Doll’s Hospital), 66 to 70 (Stump Cross and Botolph Street), 72 to 82, 84 (White Horse PH) to 100 ]

[ Magdalen Street: 92 to 94 (Hacons Yard), 96 to 100 (Georgian mansion refaced and converted into a shoe factory - once the residence of J.S.Patteson - Sheriff 1811 and Mayor 1823), White Horse Yard, Hacon’s Yard ]

White Horse Yard: Botolph Street derived its name from the former church of St Buttolph the Abbot. Made redundant in 1544 it was demolished your years later, the parish being united with St Saviour’s. According to Blomefield it stood in Magdalen Street “not far north of Stump Cross; its church-yard abutted east on the said street, and west on St Buttolph’s, commonly called Buttle-Street; and is now the White Horse Yard”.

[ Magdalen Street: 110 to 112, 136 to 144, 148, 154 (White Swan PH) ] [ Mansfield Lane: Old Lakenham Post Office ] [ Mariners Lane: St John de Sepulchre National School (part of - opened 1872 it was the first Norwich Board school to be built under the Education Act of 1870) ]

Magdalen Street

[ Mariners Lane: 1 to 5 ] [ Market Avenue: 1 (Plough PH) ] [ Market Lane ] [ Market Place: 1 (Georgian shop front), Labour in Vain Yard ]

[ Market Place: 6 to 9 (mansion of Queen Anne period - 18c. shop front), 21, 22 to 23 (hanging tiles being replaced with plaster 1951) ]

[ Market Place: 24 (built 1846 by J.Stannard as the Royal Hotel - Royal Arcade entrance), 27 to 30 (inside it shows part of a timber-framed building of about 1500 but it took its present form 200 years later) ]

[ Market Place: 27 to 30 (Fruiterers’ Arms PH demolition 1967) ]

[ Market Place: 34 to 36 (Sir Garnet Wolseley PH - Regency period), 37 (built c.1640 - the birthplace of Sir J.E.Smith botanist in 1759), The Butchery (Black Prince Inn), 43 (Waterloo Inn) ]

Market Place

[ Martineau Lane: Villa Gardens ]

Villa Gardens:

An inscribed stone on its northern gable bears the date 1638, but certain alterations were made during the following century. Some fine wooden panelling incorporating a cupboard, all of the 17c., is now in the Castle Museum. The house was badly damaged during and air raid on 17th May 1941.

Martineau Lane

[ Mountergate: Old House (with weavers’ windows), Weavers’ Building, St Faith’s House ]

[ Muspole Street: 1 to 11 (with weavers’ window), 19 to 21 ]

[ Muspole Street: 23, 2 (Woolpack PH and stables) ]

For 31-33 Muspole Street, see 1-3 Pitt Street and 69-89 Duke Street.

[ Muspole Street: 8, 12 to 18 (Wellington PH) ]

[ Muspole Street: 26 to 28, 34 to 36 (former Cock and House PH) ] [ Newmarket Road: 49 to 59 (late Regency terrace), 95 (Eaton Grove - built 1820 by Sir John Harrison Yallop) ]

Muspole Street

Text and photographs copyright George Plunkett

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