Norwich Streets 'R'

Rampant Horse Street
Red Lion Street
Redwell Street
Rising Sun Lane
Riverside Road,
Rosary Road
Rose Lane
Rosemary Lane
Royal Arcade

[ Rampant Horse Street: 11 to 13, 2 to 6, 14 (formerly the property of the Mingay family - in the doorway tympanum a laurel branch surrounding “M.M” for Rev M.Mingay) ]

Rampant Horse Street

[ Red Lion Street: 5 to 7 (house at rear of) ] [ Redwell Street: 3 (mediaeval brickwork on north side - curved construction suggests the angle of a chimney), 8, Clement Court (17c. doorway) ]

[ Redwell Street: 2 ] [ Rising Sun Lane: 1, 17 to 21 (the Anchor PH), 18 to 22 ]

Redwell Street

[ Riverside Road: Bishop Bridge Inn ] [ Rosary Road: 1 (King’s Arms PH) ]

[ Rosary Road: 19 (Chalk Hill House - built 1842), 143 (Rosary Lodge - former office to Rosary cemetery), Lollards Pit (Buildings - built 1854) ] [ Rose Lane: 5 ] [ Rosemary Lane: 7 ]

[ Rosemary Lane: Pykerell’s House Map ]

Pykerell’s House:

“This is the southern part of a late 15th century merchant’s house, which seems originally to have had a further extension to the north. In the centre of what remains is a small open hall (20 feet by 16 feet) with a fine open roof of tie-beam and queen-post construction. There was a bay-window recess on either side, the moulded rear arch of that on the north side still intact, while considerable indications of that on the south side remain. In the spandrels of the arches were four shields, now blank, but which once bore (Kirkpatrick’s Notes) the arms of Pykerell with his merchant’s mark, together with the arms of Norwich City and of the Mercers’ Company. At the lower (eastern)end of the hall is the original stud-partition wall, which still retains the framework of three doors, leading to pantry, buttery and cellar. The kitchen (now no longer in existence) was probably further to the north, on the site now covered by a later building, and reached from the hall by passing through a courtyard. Early in the 16th century this end of the house seems to have been reconditioned. At the further west end is the former parlour with its large fire-place having moulded brick jambs. This room seems to have been reached by a lobby off the northern bay-window recess, in the west wall of which the top of a door-frame survives. Over this parlour is a large upper room originally reached by a separate staircase. Early in the 17th century a floor was inserted in the hall, and windows to light the upper part were made in the south wall.”

“The house was apparently first known as Pilgrims’ Hall, but it seems undoubtedly to have been built and inhabited by Thomas Pykerell, mercer, who was three times Mayor of Norwich, in 1525, 1533 and 1538. In the 19th century it became a licensed house and was known as the Rosemary Tavern. It so continued until 1931, when it was included in a slum-clearance scheme, but being bought by the Norfolk Archaeological Trust, its present owners, it was reconditioned and so saved from destruction. In the 1942 blitz the thatch was entirely burnt off and much damaged was done to the building. It was saved by the Ancient Monuments Division of the Ministry of Works, who prevented demolition and did such first-aid repairs as were possible at the time, but for six years it remained empty and in a semi-ruinous condition. It has lately again been reconditioned and is now one of the oldest inhabited houses in Norwich.” (Rev J.F.Williams in “The Archaeological Journal” Vol.CVI for 1949)

[ Rosemary Lane: Pykerell’s House (surviving portions consist of Great Hall with Parlour to the west and buttery and pantry to the east - it is one of the few thatched houses remaining in Norwich): North side, Roof timbers, Spandrel, Archway of Great Hall ]

[ Royal Arcade (built 1899 by architect George Skipper in the “Art Nouveau” style on the site of the old Royal Hotel yard - formerly the Angel Inn - the facade of the hotel - built by J.Stannard in 1846 - was retained above the entrance from Gentleman’s Walk): Entrance to rooms designed for the Conservative Club, Interior (decorated 1935 for Silver Jubilee) ]

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