Cockley Cley Museum
COCKLEY CLEY MUSEUM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1152009
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cockley Cley Museum
- Statutory Address:
- COCKLEY CLEY MUSEUM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1152009
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cockley Cley Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- COCKLEY CLEY MUSEUM
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:
- COCKLEY CLEY MUSEUM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cockley Cley
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 79481 04093
Details
COCKLEY CLEY TF 70 SE 8/11 Cockley Cley Museum
- II
Former farmhouse, subdivided at one time, now museum of local history. C17 with a thorough C18 refurbishment. Timber frame mainly replaced with masonry. Flint and brick masonry, the brickwork of random headers and keyed dressings. Pantile roof. Lobby entrance type plan. 2 storeys. Facade with 4 symmetrically placed casement windows with glazing bars, of 3 lights beneath segmental arches to ground floor and of 2 lights to upper floor. 2 boarded doors beneath segmental arches, one opposite stack, the other to easternmost bay. C17 off-centre axial stack with 2 interconnecting angled shafts. Fragment of timber frame to rear showing the wall plate and wall posts of the original single-storeyed house with attic. Original winding stair to entrance side of stack. Doorway to upper floor with ogee and nicked chamfer stop. Eastern- most bay is an C18 addition leaving the original timber framed end wall as a partition.
Listing NGR: TF7948104093
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 221008
- 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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