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Title*

Former Palmer's Livery stable
County Norfolk   District Council North Norfolk 
Civil Parish or equivalent Cromer  Town/Village* Cromer 
Road Brook Street 
Precise Location West side of street opposite back of Red Lion Pub 
OS Grid Ref TG223421  Postcode NR27 
Previous location(s)  
Setting Building  Access Public 
Artist/Maker Role Qualifier
Not known  Architect(s)   

Commissioned by

 R.W. Palmer 

Design & Constrn period

 1893 

Date of installing

  

Exact date of unveiling

  

Category
Abstract Animal Architectural
Commercial Commemorative Composite
Free Functional Funerary
Heraldic Military Natural
Non-Commemorative Performance Portable
Religious Roadside, Wayside Sculptural
Temporary, Mobile Other  

Object Type
Building Clock Tower Architectural
Coat of Arms Cross Fountain
Landscape Marker Medallion
Mural Panel Readymade
Relief Shaft Sculpture
Statue Street Furniture War Memorial
Other Object Sub Type: Architectural decoration

Subject Type
Allegorical Mythological Pictorial
Figurative Non-figurative Portrait
Still-life Symbolic Other

Subject Sub Type
Bust Equestrian Full-length
Group Head Reclining
Seated Standing Torso
Part Material Dimension
Facade  Terracotta  Overall 12 metres wide 
Four decorative panels  Terracotta  each 1.60 high 45 cm wide 

Work is
Extant Not Sited Lost

Owner/Custodian

 Clarence House Housing Association 

Listing status
Grade I Grade II* Grade II Don't Know Not Listed

Surface Condition
Corrosion, Deterioration Accretions
Bird Guano Abrasions, cracks, splits
Biological growth Spalling, crumbling
Metallic staining Previous treatments
Other  
Detail:

Structural Condition
Armature exposed Broken or missing parts
Replaced parts Loose elements
Cracks, splits, breaks, holes Spalling, crumbling
Water collection Other
Detail:

Vandalism
Graffiti Structural damage Surface Damage
Detail: One inscription now nearly illegible

Overall condition
Good Fair Poor

Risk
No Known Risk At Risk Immediate
Signatures/Marks  
Inscriptions At top: R.W. PALMER, 1893, underneath nearly effaced: CLARENCE HOUSE 

Description (physical)

 A facade with a wide central opening, which originally fronted a livery stable. The upper cornice is decorated with alternating fleur-de lys and roses, and the four decorative panels have 'grotesque' flowers around a central stem. 

Description (iconographical)

 The livery stables survived down to the 1960s when it was Allman's Auction Rooms, later a snooker hall. In 2007/8 the stables were replaced by mews housing. R.W. Palmer advertised his four in hand char-a-banc trips in a pamphlet in the collections of Cromer Museum and is listed as 'jobmaster' at Brook street in Kelly's Directories for Norfolk from 1896, p. 95, until 1916, p. 106, when he had died and the livery had been taken over by his executors. 

Photographs

 Date taken:  16/2/2009
Date logged: 

Photographed by:
Sarah Cocke

On Site Inspection

 Date:  16/2/2009

Inspected by:
Richard Cocke

Sources and References

 Information from Denise Lattaway, Cromer Museum; www.culturalmodes.norfolk.gov.uk/projects/nmaspu (under Cromer Museum collection, Palmer) accessed 17/02/2009 

Database

 Date entered:  17/2/2009

Data inputter:
Richard Cocke