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Old Post Office Lane, HOLT, NR25 7RD

Beside High Street. Present-day Cley is not in the same location as the medieval village of Cley used to be. This was located south of St Margaret's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309410 and had a busy harbour, which was ruined by embanking in the 1640s by Sir Henry Calthorpe. A fire had already encouraged relocation in 1612. When Thomas Telford had been called in, in 1822, to advise on the problem of silting the Cley channel, his advice was ignored and the once busy port is now history. Many of the houses and cottages that line the narrow High Street (A149) through the village are built from flint and brick and date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Present-day Cley is not in the same location as the medieval village of Cley used to be. This was located south of St Margaret's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309410 and had a busy harbour, which was ruined by embanking in the 1640s by Sir Henry Calthorpe. A fire had already encouraged relocation in 1612. When Thomas Telford had been called in, in 1822, to advise on the problem of silting the Cley channel, his advice was ignored and the once busy port is now history. Many of the houses and cottages that line the narrow High Street (A149) through the village are built from flint and brick and date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Starr House, dating from the mid-19th century, presently houses a pottery and gift shop. Adjoining it is > Image Present-day Cley is not in the same location as the medieval village of Cley used to be. This was located south of St Margaret's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309410 and had a busy harbour, which was ruined by embanking in the 1640s by Sir Henry Calthorpe. A fire had already encouraged relocation in 1612. When Thomas Telford had been called in, in 1822, to advise on the problem of silting the Cley channel, his advice was ignored and the once busy port is now history. Many of the houses and cottages that line the narrow High Street (A149) through the village are built from flint and brick and date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Grade II listed. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-224581-rocket-house-cley-next-the-sea-norfolk

Once the village Post Office, and with an 18th century facade on an older core, the house was Grade II listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101049855-whaleborne-house-cley-next-the-sea#.XY4_Z0ZKjIU & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1049855 in 1952. Probably its most unusual feature is the cornice (just below the pantiled roof) which is formed of a row of mammalian vertebrae - I suspect they're from cattle or possibly sheep. Nice touch.

This is a late 18th century house built from flint and brick, with stone quoins and pieces of bone inserted around the windows and eaves cornice. Adjoining it is Rocket House, dating from the 18th century also, with a 19th century porch. Present-day Cley is not in the same location as the medieval village of Cley used to be. This was located south of St Margaret's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/309410 and had a busy harbour, which was ruined by embanking in the 1640s by Sir Henry Calthorpe. A fire had already encouraged relocation in 1612. When Thomas Telford had been called in, in 1822, to advise on the problem of silting the Cley channel, his advice was ignored and the once busy port is now history. Many of the houses and cottages that line the narrow High Street (A149) through the village are built from flint and brick and date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Situated mid-way along the High Street, this classic 1930s phone box, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, was Grade II listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101373505-k6-telephone-kiosk-cley-next-the-sea#.XYxn4ChKhPY & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1373505 in 1988.