While I was taking photos down St Andrews Street, we were trying to find our way to look at Norwich Cathedral. Last time I didn't take any Norwich churches, this time I took a lot of them! This is Strangers' Hall on Charing Cross, Norwich. We were here on a Tuesday and it was closed. It's one of Norwich's oldest buildings dating back to 1320. Open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10:30am to 4pm. Is a Grade I listed building. Strangers Hall Museum - Norwich - British Listed Buildings Former houses and shops now museum. C14 onwards. Street range:- Early C16 flint rubble ground floor, rendered timber frame first floor. Brick rear extension. Pantile roofs. 2 storeys, first floor jettied. 7 first floor windows. C20 display windows at ground floor with 2 sash windows and carriage entry to right. Passage entry to left with timber doorway having roll-moulded jambs, pierced fanlight and hood supported on carved consoles. Inner door dated 1621. Strapwork carving on fascia covering jetty with the date 1621. 3 C18 sash windows with glazing bars and 4 C17 mullion and transom windows at first floor. Simple box cornice. Undercroft beneath right hand half of building:- Brick. Pointed barrel-vault profile parallel to street line with side chamber away from street. Original entry to right of chamber with 4 stone steps, now blocked. Blocked doorway in east wall. Hall range:- C14 C15 and C16 alterations. Flint rubble with stone and brick dressings. Rendered timber-frame to top floor, north wall of north arm. Pantile roofs. L-shape plan away from street line. 2-bay open hall and 2-storey service end with cellars parallel to street. C16 full height oriel window with moulded stone tracery on south side. Brick built stair turret to the right of the oriel having mullion and transom windows and a carved timber fascia with the date 1627. Central door with stone jambs, flat arch and hood. Later C15 north door at east end approached by steps. Pointed stone arch with moulded jambs. Additional mouldings applied when the vaulted porch was added. 2 later C15 service doors with stone jambs and 4-centre moulded arches. Opposite the north door in the south wall is an earlier C15 doorway with 4-centre moulded arch. Part of a re-used C16 timber screen with linen-fold and heraldic carving inside north door. 2-bay crown-post roof plastered at collar and brace level. Brattishing on wall-plate. Carved spandrels with Nicholas Sotherton's merchant mark (1530). 3-storey north arm built over a C14 3 bay undercroft that extends beneath the hall. The undercroft has stone diagonal and cross ribs springing from wall piers. The original entry was from the east wall of the centre bay. C16 north doorway leading to a passage-way created in the C20 and using a partly re-made C16 frieze window. To the east of the window is a 4-centre arch with hollow chamfered bricks and hood mould. 2 mullion and transom windows on each floor with leaded lights. Stair turret in the angle. Fireplace on first floor of north range having fluted stone jambs and a 4-centre opening with painted shields, one bearing the initials of Joseph Paine. Remade and incomplete fireplace on the second floor with similar detail. Block south-west of hall:- Late C15, rebuilt early. C16. Flint with brick dressings. Pantile roof. 2 storeys built over C15 cellar. 3 bays with single-storey left-side extension with one mullion and transom window. Tall ground floor sash windows with glazing bars and brick surrounds. C20 mullion and transom windows with leaded lights at first floor. Large blocked C16 windows on east wall. The ground floor room has 1748 panelling and fireplace with ornate overmantel containing painting. Simple cornice and plaster ceiling below fine C16 timber ceiling with roll-moulded beams and joists. The first floor has partly re-used C17 panelling. Jacobean fireplace with tapering fluted pilasters and a 4-centre stone opening with 2 painted overmantel panels. The date of 1659 is on one of the Spandrel shields. In the angle with the open hall is a stair turret extended north by one bay in the C17. These two blocks were incorporated into the hall range in the Cl7. Parish boundary plate 1829 on street range. Centre rear of street range:- Later C16 Flint with brick dressings ground floor. Timber frame first floor. Pantile roof. At right-angles to street range. 2 storeys. Jetty at first floor. 2 mullion and transom windows at first floor. One 9-light frieze window on ground floor in brick opening. Bressumer with billet moulding and timber framing above restored in C20. Ground floor ceiling with heavily moulded beams and joists. Large stack with carved timber bressumer. This range was incorporated into the north range of the hall in the C20. Beyond the extreme left of the street range is a block running back from and away from the street line:- C15 with later alterations. Flint and brick dressings. Pantile roof. 2 storeys. 3 widely spaced first-floor windows. Right-hand C20 door. Pair of partly glazed doors to left. Central casement window. 3 mullion and transom windows with side hung lights at first floor. In the later C15 part of this range was incorporated into the hall block as the service rooms: Beyond these to the south, in the early C17, the range was widened westwards:- The C17 facade being:- Brick with 6-light mullion and transom windows at ground and first floor, the left-hand light blocked by 1627 stair turret. Pantile roof with dormer. Partly remade C17 panelling at first floor. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument. R. Smith and A. Carter, "Function and Site: Aspects of Norwich Buildings" Vernacular Architecture, Vol. 14, 1983. Museum sign.