Black Lion Hotel

BLACK LION HOTEL, 10, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1049549
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:
Black Lion Hotel
Statutory Address:
BLACK LION HOTEL, 10, MARKET PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1049549
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:
Black Lion Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
BLACK LION HOTEL, 10, MARKET PLACE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BLACK LION HOTEL, 10, MARKET PLACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Norfolk
District:
North Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Walsingham
National Grid Reference:
TF 93349 36734

Details

1. 5320 LITTLE WALSINGHAM MARKET PLACE (West Side)

No 10 (Black Lion Hotel) TF 9336 NW 1/47 30.11.51.

II* GV

2. C15 and later. Front 2 blocks probably C17, stuccoed brick and flint; black-glazed pantile roofs with gabled ends. Right hand end (north) higher roof; 2 storeys. Two windows plus 4 windows. Sashes, right hand end with glazing bars and carriageway. Left hand end 2 mid C19 doorways one with pediment the other with cornice on console brackets. Interior: chamfered and moulded ceiling beams; panelling in north end. Behind to south-west a long wing: circa late C17, painted brick; pantile roof with gabled ends; 2 storeys and attic; 3 good pedimented dormers with moulded cornices and casements one with leaded panes; string course; sashes with thick glazing bars. Interior: chamfered ceiling beams. Plastered gable in angle at rear. Wing to north-west: C15; only east end of the original long range survives; flint with pantile roof; remains of C15 2-light cusped stone window on 1st floor and lancet in east gable.

Listing NGR: TF9334936734

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
223213
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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