Old Rectory Cottage
OLD RECTORY COTTAGE, ATTLEBOROUGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076790
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rectory Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OLD RECTORY COTTAGE, ATTLEBOROUGH ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08988/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076790
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rectory Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD RECTORY COTTAGE, ATTLEBOROUGH ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- OLD RECTORY COTTAGE, THE STREET
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:
- OLD RECTORY COTTAGE, ATTLEBOROUGH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- OLD RECTORY COTTAGE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Caston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL9600097672
Details
TL 99 NE
4/12
CASTON
THE STREET (Attleborough Road)
Old Rectory Cottage
- II
2 cottages, now one. Early C17 and early C19.
Timber frame entirely cased in brick in C19. Pantiled roof. L plan, originally 3 celled. One storey and dormer attic. Pantiled gabled entrance porch with decorated bargeboard. One 3-light leaded casement left and right with brick hoods on labels. Gabled roofs with 3 gabled dormers with bargeboards and leaded casements. Rebuilt stack at junction of ranges and similar stack at south gable. South wing later C17, recased in mid C18 with tumbling and burnt headers.
Drawing room interior has plaster ceiling, now restored, comprising 2 Angels with spread wings, one with mitre and book, the other with a staff. 4 large roundels of fleur-de-lys and lotus leaves and 16 small modified Tudor roses complete decoration. Date probably mid C17.
Listing NGR: TL9600097672
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220174
- 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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