Suckling House now houses Cinema City and dates back to 1350, and was possibly build by William De Rollesby. This property has seen lots of changes in owners, and been a home and official residence for a mayor, a sheriff and a wine merchant.
Its name today is given to its 1500th century owner Robert Suckling who was the Sheriff of Norwich in 1564, Mayor in 1572 and 1582 a Burgess a freeman and elected official for the area in the parliament of Elizabeth I.
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In 1915 the whole building is bought by the Norfolk News Company and some essential repairs where made before being sold on to Ethal and Helen Colman a well known Norfolk family. They build a meeting hall called Stuarts Hall on waist land next to Suckling house and turn it into a new auditorium, which it still is today.
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