Old Nag's Head

OLD NAG'S HEAD, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1077265
Date first listed:
03-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Old Nag's Head
Statutory Address:
OLD NAG'S HEAD, CHURCH ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1077265
Date first listed:
03-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Old Nag's Head
Statutory Address 1:
OLD NAG'S HEAD, CHURCH 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.

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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:
OLD NAG'S HEAD, CHURCH ROAD

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
Breckland (District Authority)
Parish:
Holme Hale
National Grid Reference:
TF8867107530

Details

HOLME HALE CHURCH ROAD TF 80 NE 5/26 Old Nag's Head

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C16, floored, extended and chimneys added during C17. Rendered timber frame, partially replaced with flint and brick. Colourwashed brick gable-ends and stack bay. Ashlar quoins to added stack bay. Thatched roof. Eastern half a former open hall with through passage. Returned brick gable-end with stack added to west. Added western half producing a massive central axial stack. Continuous outshut to rear. 2 storeys with attics. Irregular fenestration of Victorian and modern 2-light casement windows with glazing bars. Modern gabled dormer window to western half. Moulded brick corbels to former parapet gable. Some apparent studs to rear above the continuous utshut. C20 brick gable-ends and rebuilt chimney shafts. Interior. Timber frame apparent in eastern half with close studding and arch-braced clasped purlin roof with window bracing. Service partition with solar survives. Moulded stone jambs to first floor fireplace with traces of original paint. One surviving through passage doorway with 4-centred head. Clasped purlin roof also to western half. Ogee and nicked chamfer stops to added first floor doorway.

Listing NGR: TF8867307528

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
221023
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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