Shadwell Court
SHADWELL COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1076940
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Shadwell Court
- Statutory Address:
- SHADWELL COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1076940
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Shadwell Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHADWELL COURT
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:
- SHADWELL COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brettenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 92868 83087
Details
BRETTENHAM
TL 98 SW
8/11
Shadwell Court
I
Country House of complex plan. c.1720, rebuilt 1840-42 by Edward Blore
and 1856-60 by S.S. Teulon. Caen stone, ashlar, brick and flint with slate
roofs. 3-4 storeys. Jacobean and Gothic east facade. Central tower over
entrance with elaborately cusped ogee arch above two orders of irontwist shafts
with naturalistic foliage capitals and other carving. Oriel windows through
2 storeys with flushwork above. Stair turret begins at roof line. Flanking
wings with shaped gables, varied fenestration, pinnacles and chimney stacks
are linked to tower by stepped ranges. Overall balanced asymmetry and
strikingly punctuated skyline. South and west facades largely by Blore.
Shaped gables, octagonal corner pinnacles, first floor sting course riding
over 2 storey bay windows and canted oriels on moulded aprons. Straight
headed mullion and transom windows. Punched and balustraded parapets.
interior of house dominated by cruciform music hall spanning width of building
and terminating in 4-light Perpendicular window, originally with stained
glass. Each arm of varying size with good timber roofs, all different.
Crossing piers articulated by engaged marble shafts with foliage capitals
and some figures. Some panelling. Central crossing roof of cusped and
notched quadripartite braces on carved corbels supporting timber drop pendant
for chandelier. All timber work of highest quality but carpenter unknown.
Great dining room of 1856-60 has tall mullioned windows, 4 centred wall arches
with profuse carving and large bay window entered through similar stone archway.
Heavy moulded corbels support flat panelled timber ceiling. Library, originally
drawing room of 1720's remodelled by Blore with fine Victorian plaster ceiling.
New drawing room by Blore with similar ceiling, slightly coved, and late C18
chimney piece.
mark Girouard, Country Life 136i, 1964, pp. 18-21, 98-102.
Listing NGR: TL9286883087
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219827
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, (1964), 18-21
Country Life in Country Life, (1964), 98-102
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 29 Norfolk,
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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