Bilney House Including Adjacent Outbuildings
BILNEY HOUSE INCLUDING ADJACENT OUTBUILDINGS, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077365
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bilney House Including Adjacent Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- BILNEY HOUSE INCLUDING ADJACENT OUTBUILDINGS, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077365
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bilney House Including Adjacent Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- BILNEY HOUSE INCLUDING ADJACENT OUTBUILDINGS, 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.
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:
- BILNEY HOUSE INCLUDING ADJACENT OUTBUILDINGS, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Beetley
- National Grid Reference:
- TF9577419405
Details
TF 91 NE
3/5
BEETLEY
East Bilney
CHURCH ROAD (east side)
Bilney House including adjoining outbuildings
- II
Former rectory. 1836 by William Donthorn for Reverend Henry Collison.
Brick with stone dressings and slate roofs. Gothick style. 2 storeys with attic and extensive cellars. 3-bay entrance facade with central 2-storey gabled porch. 3-centred entrance arch with carved spandrels and a 2-leaf panelled front door. Gable with arms and traceried peak finial. Polygonal angle pilasters rising to form crenellated turrets on external corners including porch. A pair of 3-light mullion windows with cusped ogee traceried heads to ground floor. 3 2-light first floor windows in similar style. All windows with rectangular hood moulds and carved head label stops. Moulded plinth coping, stringcourse and cornice. Plain parapet. Single storeyed service adjunct to north with 2-light window in similar style and a single light cusped window. Garden facade irregular with a slightly projecting gabled bay to east side with polygonal angle pilasters forming crenellated turrets supported on corbels at first floor level. Canted bay with tall traceried parapet. Blocked or intentionally blind lancet window in gable. Windows in same style as entrance facade with 3-light windows to ground floor and first floor of projecting bay, and 3 single light windows to first floor.
Former stables to east and servants' quarters to north both connected by tall walls with blind lancet windows and pilasters. Various later additions to rear of main block.
Interior retains many original fittings including plasterwork, fireplaces and stained glass all in a distinctive Gothick style.
Listing NGR: TF9577419405
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220752
- 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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