The brick-vaulted cellar of a 15th-century merchant's house in Blakeney, later home to the port's guild of fish merchants
Open accessfree to visit at any reasonable time
Below street level in Blakeney is the vaulted cellar of a merchant’s house built around the 1400s, all that survives of what was once a much bigger building. Brick ribs curve overhead, resting on eight-sided stone columns, above a cobbled floor. By 1516 the house had become the meeting place of the fish merchants’ guild in Blakeney, granted a charter that year by Henry VIII. The undercroft was later used as a coal store and, briefly during the First World War, as a mortuary for sailors lost at sea. The undercroft itself is normally closed, though you can peer in through a metal grille set into the door, and the outside is there to see whenever you’re passing.
