6 AND 8, WAINFORD ROAD, 6 AND 8, PIRNHOW STREET
6 AND 8, PIRNHOW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1050558
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 6 AND 8, WAINFORD ROAD, 6 AND 8, PIRNHOW STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 6 AND 8, PIRNHOW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1050558
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 6 AND 8, WAINFORD ROAD, 6 AND 8, PIRNHOW STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6 AND 8, PIRNHOW STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 6 AND 8, WAINFORD ROAD
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:
- 6 AND 8, PIRNHOW STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 6 AND 8, WAINFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ditchingham
- National Park:
- The Broads
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 34627 90518
Details
DITCHINHAM PIRNHOW STREET TM 39SW (or Wainford Road) 6/106 Nos 6 and 8
- II
House, divided into 2 dwellings. Circa late C16 or early C16, remodelled in circa late C16 or early C17 and subdivided and extended in C19 and extended again in C20. Timber frame, faced in brick, partly painted and partly rendered. Steeply pitched pantile roof with parapeted brick gable ends, the left hand (south east) with corbelled kneelers. Rendered brick axial stack.
3-room plan, at least the centre was originally open to the roof and heated from an open hearth fire and having a floor and stack inserted in circa late C16 or early C17. Remodelled with lobby entrance in front of stack in C17. Subdivided into 2 houses and rear wing added in C19 and another rear wing built C20.
1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 4-window north east front. All C20 2-light casements; attics have 3 raking dormers. Brick porch on right (No. 6) with lean-to roof. Gabled wings at rear.
Interior: Chamfered cross-beams, the left hand (No. 8) with wide chamfers and flat stops, the right hand (no 6) with run-out stops. Centre room of main range (no. 8) has exposed post in rear wall with bracked or curved brace springing from a corbel. Axial stack has back-to-back fireplaces rebuilt in brick. The roof was rebuilt in C17 with knee-brace trusses, except for one original smoke-blackened Medieval tie-beam truss overcentre, with curved braces, queen-posts and collar.
Source: E. Rose, Norfolk Museums Service report, 1984.
Listing NGR: TM3462790518
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 226885
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rose, E, Norfolk Museums Service Report in Norfolk Museums Service Report, (1984)
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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