Merton Hall Shellhouse 340 Metres West South West of Merton Hall
MERTON HALL SHELLHOUSE 340 METRES WEST SOUTH WEST OF MERTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076781
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Merton Hall Shellhouse 340 Metres West South West of Merton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MERTON HALL SHELLHOUSE 340 METRES WEST SOUTH WEST OF MERTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076781
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Merton Hall Shellhouse 340 Metres West South West of Merton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERTON HALL SHELLHOUSE 340 METRES WEST SOUTH WEST OF MERTON 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.
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:
- MERTON HALL SHELLHOUSE 340 METRES WEST SOUTH WEST OF MERTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Merton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL9085397629
Details
TL 99 NW
SP 4/70 5
MERTON
MERTON PARK
Merton Hall Shellhouse 340 metres west south west of Merton Hall
II
Garden house. Circa 1846 by Edward Blore, architect.
Brick with some stone dressings. Interior faced entirely with seashells. Corrugated tile roof. Tudor style. Single storey with clasping polygonal buttresses to each angle surmounted by stone pepperpot finials. Crowstep gables with pepperpot apex finials. Entrance in gable-end with 4-centred arch of timber forming spandrels. Part-glazed panelled door. Ovolo-moulded arched flanking windows with a similar larger window in gable. 5 similar blind arches to one gutter wall. 2 cusped Gothic windows with oculi in between to other side covered by wooden shutters. Moulded brick dentil cornices. Rear gable-end with canted oriel window in timber. Crenellated parapet and pediments above the 3 shuttered openings.
Interior. Walls and roof entirely covered with seashells laid in varied patterns. Mosaic floor. Arched opening to oriel window.
Listing NGR: TL9085397629
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220158
- 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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