Bowthorpe Hall

BOWTHORPE HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1051373
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Bowthorpe Hall
Statutory Address:
BOWTHORPE HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1051373
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Bowthorpe Hall
Statutory Address 1:
BOWTHORPE HALL

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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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

Location

Statutory Address:
BOWTHORPE HALL

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
Norwich (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TG 17796 09049

Details

TG 10 NE BOWTHORPE 3/87 2.10.51. Bowthorpe Hall - II Large house, now school. C17 with facade C1700. Red brick with rendered plinth; 4 brick chimneys (3 re-built) T-Plan. 2 storeys; main facade: 6-window range, symmetrical. Panelled (formerly double- leaf ?) door in moulded wooden architrave is flanked by rusticated Ionic pilasters, under a pediment. Coved niche above has bust of a Roman Emperor in slightly projecting bay with rusticated brick quoins. 3 ground and first-floor windows to right and left (some blind with painted glazing bars) have sashes with intersecting glazing bars, all under flat gauged brick arches. Eaves cornice has dentils and egg & dart decoration under carved modillions. Contemporary facade at right angles to left has French window and one first floor sash window flanked by blind recesses with painted glazing bars. Stepped gable. Irregular buttress at right end of main facade with original quoins and C20 brick repairs may indicate another wing, now demolished. 3 stepped gables to rear, one with kneelers on projecting stair tower. Interior not inspected during the re-survey.

Listing NGR: TG1779609049

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
228827
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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