Norfolk Historic Buildings

The Norfolk Historic Building Group (NHBG) was founded in 2000 to bring together people who enjoy and appreciate old buildings and want to learn more about them

[Norfolk Historic Buildings @NHBGroup]

1/3 Exciting news, our 7th Journal, the product of 8 years of research in the field and many more years of research into the available documentary evidence is now available to buy!

[Norfolk Historic Buildings @NHBGroup]

We have a new website! https://t.co/nkNYvoVIDu

[Norfolk Heritage Centre @NorfolkHC]

Want to know how to access information on Norfolk's archaeology and historic buildings/landscapes? Join us for our next free talk, 'The Norfolk Historic Environment Record', with Heather Hamilton of
@NorfolkHES.
📅Tues 1 August
⏰1pm Booking essential: https://t.co/ap9zzUl1bZ

[ehbg @Sxhistbuildings]

Calling medieval twitter and buildings boffins! Has anyone encountered this sort of guilloche carved decoration on a late-medieval building? Twisted bands with diamonds in the centres. Revealed during re-rendering of an earlyC15(?) house in Maldon, Essex. Many thanks! @VArchGroup

[Simon Knott @SimoninSuffolk]

Salthouse, Norfolk.
https://t.co/U27ta5fu2D

'When we walked up the hill above Salthouse
and saw, looking down where we’d been

ourselves on the beach waving back –
we were here and there and no-place

coming and going at once, perceiving
the speckled clouds as sleeping seals,

as we dipped our toes in the breeze
and watched from the hill’s shoreline

a kestrel come in with the tide,
and hold his stillness open

over the ship weathervane
of a church that was floating and drowned,

his shadow on the ground beneath him
the anchor that kept him aloft.'

Charles Bennett, 'Salthouse'

This poem appears in the new compendium of Norfolk poetry 'Before The Dreadful Daylight Starts', edited by @CamJself and @KevinGardner520, available from https://t.co/mqwLYUOveP

[Norfolk Historic Buildings @NHBGroup]

Not long until #HeritageOpenDays. Plenty of historic Norfolk buildings to go and visit!

[Norfolk Heritage Open Days @NorfolkHODs]

Our new brochure is packed full of hundreds of amazing FREE events which take place across #Norfolk. Whether you're looking for unique stories, fascinating places, brilliant history, or an experience to remember forever, #HeritageOpenDays is for you!
https://t.co/tQTo81Aicu

[Norfolk Historic Buildings @NHBGroup]

Free sessions on researching house history at the Norfolk Heritage centre 👇

[Norfolk Heritage Centre @NorfolkHC]

Want to research the history of your home but don't know where to start?

Join us for our free 'Introduction to Researching House History' session.

📅 Saturday 22 July
⏰ 10.30am-12.30pm

Booking essential:
https://t.co/s0tYvJOKRH

[Norfolk Historic Buildings @NHBGroup]

Looks like there’s some spaces available on this Norfolk &Norwich Archaeological Society trip to Suffolk

[Norfolk & Norwich Archaeological Society (NNAS) @NNArchaeolSoc]

The NNAS sets forth on its first summer excursion of 2023 on 20th June. Over the border by coach to two quite diff sites with Richard Hoggett: the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds and West Stow. All are welcome - coach from Norwich - it'll be a good day!! https://t.co/wxn70E0RXJ

[Norfolk Historic Buildings @NHBGroup]

A huge thank you to Hannah and Ben Nairn who kindly invited NHBG members to view their house for the most recent NHBG summer visit. We were also treated to some lovely refreshments too. A thatched, timber framed property. The main range is mid C16th with a later C17th cross wing.

[Norfolk Historic Buildings @NHBGroup]

Ooh get your self a book bargain!

[Norfolk Heritage Centre @NorfolkHC]

Grab yourself a bargain at our four day Local History Book Sale extravaganza!

📅 Fri 19th May - Mon 22nd May, during open hours
📷 Ground floor, @MillenniumLib

Hardbacks - £2
Paperbacks - £1
DVDs - £1
Pamphlets & postcards - 50p
Other material as priced

#LocalHistoryMonth

[Norfolk Historic Buildings @NHBGroup]

Great to find this #norfolk #boultonandpaul chapel. Saved and relocated to @FoodMuseumUK just over the border in Suffolk

[Norfolk Historic Buildings @NHBGroup]

Missed some of our winter season of Zoom talks? You can catch up on our YouTube channel. Recent talks include the “The Craft Trade of Pargetting: an overview of history and techniques, including recent investigations” by Anna Kettle https://t.co/l9ojDnrEe2

[VAG @VArchGroup]

Today's the final day to apply for a free bursary place at the Vernacular Architecture Group's spring conference in Greater Manchester, 11-15 April 2023. If you know of anyone who might benefit, do let them know! https://t.co/ZdjOOIHFJC @UoYArchaeology @IHBCtweet @cons_historian

[Reggie Unthank @ReggieUnthank]

Boulton&Paul, Norwich, built prefabricated buildings thru'out the country, from chicken coops to chapels.

[VAG @VArchGroup]

Are you researching, or writing about, aspects of vernacular buildings? The VAG offers research and publication grants - find out more at https://t.co/CbcA9qoMrp. Deadline of 28 February each year for research grant applications; no deadline for publication grant applications.

[Norfolk Historic Buildings @NHBGroup]

Our next NHBG online winter talk “The Craft Trade of Pargetting: an overview of history and techniques, including recent investigations” by Anna Kettle. We have some spaces available for non-NHBG members. Email [email protected] for a Zoom invite

[Norfolk Historic Buildings @NHBGroup]

A contingent of NHBG members attended the VAG winter conference this weekend. Some really fascinating and thought provoking talks. A huge thank to all involved. We’ll be providing a short overview to NHBG members in the next newsletter

[VAG @VArchGroup]

Fascinating talks today at the VAG winter conference looking at building traditions in Suriname, the Scottish isles, Amsterdam and Sweden. Lots to think about!

[Reggie Unthank @ReggieUnthank]

Rare in flinty Norwich, this stone doorway in Colegate is thought to have come from the long-lost Duke of Norfolk's Palace #AdoorableThursday

[Norfolk Historic Buildings @NHBGroup]

Lectures start at 7.30.
To hear these lectures via Zoom contact nhbg with your email address a week or so ahead. You will then be sent joining instructions a few days beforehand. The email for this is [email protected]

[Norfolk Historic Buildings @NHBGroup]

Future NHBG Winter Season lectures are now open to all.January 12th 2023 Anna Kettle: The Craft Trade of Pargeting- and overview of history and techniques including recent investigations.February 7th Sarah Pearson: Riddlesworth- the development and decline of a Norfolk Estate 1/2