The Gildencroft
THE GILDENCROFT, 56, NORWICH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1050904
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Gildencroft
- Statutory Address:
- THE GILDENCROFT, 56, NORWICH ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1050904
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Gildencroft
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GILDENCROFT, 56, NORWICH 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:
- THE GILDENCROFT, 56, NORWICH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Broadland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horsham St. Faith and Newton St. Faith
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 21806 15447
Details
TG 21 NW HORSHAM ST. FAITH & NORWICH ROAD NEWTON ST. FAITH No. 56 (The Gildencroft). 2/49 - II
House, late C17/early C18. Red brick, partly colourwashed, with some flint and limestone dressings. Roofs steeply-pitched, pantiled and plaintiled. Two storeys and attics, T-shaped plan. Main facade to east : three bays, two- and three-light casements with mullions and transoms; ground floor openings altered. String course of limestone blocks at first floor level. Plinth of limestone, rendered over and 'ashlared'. Rusticated brick quoins. Central four-panel door, moulded wooden doorcase with key block and dentilled frieze. Lead-covered canopy with modillions. Modillion eaves cornice. Two gabled dormers with two-light casements. Shaped north and south gables with internal stacks. Blocked attic window and two sashes with architraves and glazing bars in south gable. Large external stack on south-west side now capped-off at eaves level. Later one-storey hipped wing at north gable. Rear wing of brick, partly colourwashed, with sashes and 'cross' casements. C20 flat roofed additions on north side. Axial chimney stack; parapeted west gable with internal stack. On south side later segmental-headed wide sash windows with glazing bars, semi-circular headed doorway with half-glazed door and leaded side-lights.
Listing NGR: TG2180615447
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 228096
- 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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