Tyle Cottage and Houses Adjoining East and West
TYLE COTTAGE AND HOUSES ADJOINING EAST AND WEST, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077410
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Tyle Cottage and Houses Adjoining East and West
- Statutory Address:
- TYLE COTTAGE AND HOUSES ADJOINING EAST AND WEST, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077410
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Tyle Cottage and Houses Adjoining East and West
- Statutory Address 1:
- TYLE COTTAGE AND HOUSES ADJOINING EAST AND WEST, CHURCH STREET
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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:
- TYLE COTTAGE AND HOUSES ADJOINING EAST AND WEST, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kenninghall
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0393086057
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:-
TM 0386
11/10000
KENNINGHALL
CHURCH STREET
Tyle Cottage and houses adjoining east and west
GV II
Pair of houses, converted into 3 cottages. Circa late C16 or earlier and circa C18, converted probably in C19. Plastered timber frame, west end wall rebuilt or faced in brick. Pantile roofs with gabled ends, right-hand steeply pitched. Brick axial stacks.
Plan: Long 5-room plan overall. The right-hand 3-room and through or cross-passage plan was the original house, its service end to the right and with an axial stack at the high, left, end of the hall; the inner room or parlour on the left is now occupied by Tyle Cottage. In circa C18 a 2-room plan house with back-to-back fireplaces in a central axial stack was built at the left (east) end. In circa C19 the whole range was converted to 3 cottages. The westernmost dwelling and the right-hand room of Tyle Cottage occupying the original house and the easternmost dwelling and the left-hand room of Tyle Cottage occupying the C18 house. The outshut behind the westernmost end is probably C19 and there is a C20 single storey extension behind the easternmost dwelling.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 6-window front. C19 and C20 2- and 3-light casements with glazing bars, plank door at centre and C20 glazed door on right. Roof at rear is carried down as catslide over outshut on left with mullion-transom 3-light window; C20 conservatory and single storey flat roof wing on right.
Interior: The hall of the original house has a chamfered cross-beam with hollow step stops and broad unchamfered joists; similar joists in passage; hall fireplace blocked. Floor over service room removed for use as school room at one time. Arch braced tie-beam on jowled posts exposed in chamber but roofspace above inaccessible. Exposed joists and timber-framing in end wall in former inner room (Tyle Cottage). The C18 house has chamfered cross-beams and large brick fireplace with unchamfered timber bressummer.
Listing NGR: TM0393086057
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220648
- 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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