Whalebone House
Whalebone House, High Street, Cley Next the Sea, NR25 7RN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1049855
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Whalebone House
- Statutory Address:
- Whalebone House, High Street, Cley Next the Sea, NR25 7RN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1049855
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Whalebone House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Whalebone House, High Street, Cley Next the Sea, NR25 7RN
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Whalebone House, High Street, Cley Next the Sea, NR25 7RN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cley Next the Sea
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 04531 43807
Details
TG 0443
9/30
CLEY NEXT THE SEA
HIGH STREET (east side)
Whalebone House
(Formerly listed as The Post Office)
20.2.52.
GV
II
House, now shop, C18 facade, Quaternary beach flint, Chert pebble and cobbles with Lincolnshire Limestone dressings, pantile roof with gable parapet. Two bays, two storeys with extensions to rear.
High Street facade: stone plinth, rusticated stone quoins, ground floor of large galletted broken flints, stone platband, first floor of squared knapped flints, oversailing cornice of mammalian vertebrae, central vertical band between bays of blocks of pebble flint outlined by vertebrae. Windows with stone surrounds, alternating stone and brick voussoirs to flat arches having projecting keystones, two fixed plate glass panes to ground floor openings, two flush sashes with glazing bars to first floor. Axial stack to left hand gable shared with adjacent house (qv 9/31). Right gable to alleyway: coursed flint with stone dressings and rusticated quoins; shaped stone kneelers; central door with stone quoined surround, flat arch with keystone breaking lintel with decorated verge; Venetian window in stone to attic, pilaster shafts rendered, side lights blocked and rendered.
One and a half storey lean-to to right in coursed flint, ashlar stone surround to door, late C20 window to left with rusticated stone surrounds, horizontal sliding sash with glazing bars to upper floor having brick and stone surround. Range of cottages to right of two storeys in flint and brick under pantiles, four bays, tripartite sash with segmental head to
ground floor of first bay.
Interior: groined two bay double vault in rendered wood to staircase within lean-to at rear of front range.
Listing NGR: TG0453143807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 224580
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 17 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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