Lazar House
Lazar House, 219, Sprowston Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1051828
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Lazar House
- Statutory Address:
- Lazar House, 219, Sprowston Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1051828
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Lazar House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Lazar House, 219, Sprowston 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:
- Lazar House, 219, Sprowston Road
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 23565 10413
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 17 August 2022 to amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards
TG 21 SW
2/835
SPROWSTON ROAD (east side)
No. 219 (Lazar House)
26.2.54
II*
Former leprosy Hospital (Magdalen Chapel) C12. Later an almshouse until C17. Restored 1906 by Sir Eustace Gurney and subsequently a Branch Library. Now a day centre for people with learning disabilities. Flint rubble with stone and some brick dressings; pantiled roof.
Now L-plan. Two storeys (mostly open to roof); six window range at right-angles to street. Norman doorway in gable end has attached shafts with cushion capitals and roll-moulded voussoirs. Round-headed window (renewed) above with two small blind slits and two oculi with brick dressings at the head of the gable. Right-side elevation has a damaged Norman door and another blocked door with four-centred brick arch. Red brick reconstruction with two- and three-light mullioned and transomed windows, together with a single-storey wing at right angles and its projecting porch presumably date from the early C20 restoration.
Interior: medieval window splays and dressings include two round headed arches with earstone dressings in the west gable. Most roof-timbers replaced. Founded before 1119 by Herbert de Losigna, the nave was used as the hospital and the chancel served as a chapel for the inmates.
Listing NGR: TG2356510413
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 229611
- 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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