Shipdham Place
SHIPDHAM PLACE, CHURCH CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077290
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Shipdham Place
- Statutory Address:
- SHIPDHAM PLACE, CHURCH CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077290
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Shipdham Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHIPDHAM PLACE, CHURCH CLOSE
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:
- SHIPDHAM PLACE, CHURCH CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shipdham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 95710 07266
Details
SHIPDHAM CHURCH CLOSE TF 9507 (west side) 14/84 Shipdham Place 4.12.51 (formerley listed as Rectory) GV II
Former rectory, now hotel and restaurant. Early C17 with important early C19 addition. Rendered timber frame, rendered brick and brick and flint. Pantile and slate roofs. Double pile: front pile early C19, rear pile C17. Tall late C19 block to side and rear. 2 storeys. Early block with 5 C18 windows at first floor with some leaded glass and metal casements. At ground floor 2 sash windows with glazing bars, one part-glazed C19 door and some C20 French windows. Early C19 overhanging eaves with plain brackets. Later shallow pitched roof and 2 axial stacks. Front-pile. 5 bays of sash windows with glazing bars. Jalousie shutters to ground floor windows. Central doorway with an open porch on a pair of columns and responding pilasters withentasis. Fluted capitals and entablature. Later lobby inserted within porch with a 2-leaf panelled door. Pair of rear wall stacks and overhanging eaves with plain brackets. Interior. Massive moulded spinal bridging joist in early block. C18 room with raised and fielded panelling, moulded cornice and dado rail. Early C19 pile has a central stairacase with square sectioned balusters, shaped tread ends and swept mahogany handrail. Reeded architrave and cornice mouldings.
Listing NGR: TF9571007266
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220876
- 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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