Gillingham House
GILLINGHAM HOUSE, RECTORY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1050584
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Gillingham House
- Statutory Address:
- GILLINGHAM HOUSE, RECTORY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1050584
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gillingham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GILLINGHAM HOUSE, RECTORY 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:
- GILLINGHAM HOUSE, RECTORY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gillingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 40058 93046
Details
GILLINGHAM RECTORY ROAD TM 49 SW 8/62 Gillingham House 25-9-51 (formerly listed as 17/22 The Rectory)
- II
Former rectory house. Late C18. Brick, partly rendered and colourwashed. Roofs of slate and black glazed pantiles. Two storeys and attics, two storey rear wing. Unequal T-shaped plan, double pile to south. Facade of six bays; sashes with glazing bars and cambered heads. Doorway with 6-panelled door offset one bay to east: moulded architrave flanked by slim pilasters with projecting canopy. Dentilled cornice. Four attic dormers with cambered lead roofs. Eaves parapet. Parapeted and coped gables; east gable has brick tumbling-in and internal chimney stack. West gable has elaborate external stack with corbelled flues and weathered offsets with tumbling-in. Two storey semicircular bay at west end of rear pile, partly slated, partly pantiled; sashes with glazing bars, the ground floor openings with semicircular heads. Two storey hipped range to rear with mainly C20 fenestration; later lean-to's on west side, chimney stack off centre on ridge line. nterior: principal ground floor rooms have C18 ceilings with geometrical rib patterns. Good classical sitting room fireplace. Plain contemporary staircase.
Listing NGR: TM4005893046
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 226839
- 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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