Bodney Hall Farmhouse

BODNEY HALL FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1077257
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Bodney Hall Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
BODNEY HALL FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1077257
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Bodney Hall Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
BODNEY HALL FARMHOUSE

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

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:
BODNEY HALL FARMHOUSE

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
Breckland (District Authority)
Parish:
Hilborough
National Grid Reference:
TL8305698528

Details

TL 89 NW
5/24

HILBOROUGH
BODNEY
Bodney Hall Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. C16 core extended during C18. Additional pile of circa 1840. C19 service extensions.
Original block timber frame largely replaced with brick. Extension and service wing in flint with brick dressings. Front block rendered. Slate roofs. Original block lengthened to south, pile added to west and service wing to east. 2 storeys. Front block of 3 bays of sash windows with glazing bars. Central flat-roofed open porch supported on a pair of Roman Doric columns. Part-glazed panelled front door beneath a semicircular fanlight. Hipped roof. Facade of rear block consists of a brick skin with irregular fenestration consisting of 3 sash windows with glazing bars beneath segmental arches and a panelled door to ground floor. Gabled half dormers above with casements and 2 narrow sash windows with glazing bars. Terracotta quatrefoil with heart set beneath kneeler corbel of north east gable parapet. North gable-end of brick with close tumbling-in. Similar tumbling-in to south gable-end into flint fabric. Gable-end stacks. Very long service wing of flint with 5 bays of brick dressed casement windows beneath segmental arches.
Interior. Front block has elaborate moulded architraves with corner paterae and a heavily moulded staircase with turned balusters. Rear block with C16 roll and cavetto moulded principal beams to ground floor. Fine queen post roof structure retained within the later roof space. Evidence of surviving parts of timber frame mainly obscured by plaster.


Listing NGR: TL8305698528

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
220996
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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