COLKIRK HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1152336
Date first listed: 14-Jun-1984
Statutory Address: COLKIRK HOUSE, HALL LANE
Map
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Location
Statutory Address: COLKIRK HOUSE, HALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Norfolk
District: Breckland (District Authority)
Parish: Colkirk
National Grid Reference: TF 92071 26488
Details
TF 92 NW COLKIRK HALL LANE
(west side)
1/17 Colkirk House
- II
Large house. Dated 1834 on chimney shafts. Gault brick, some -red brick and
some stone. Concrete tiled roofs. Main block forms a cross wing with gable-
ends only slightly advanced in relation to double pile service wing. 2 storeys
with attics, and vaulted cellars. Main facade to north of 3 bays with pedi-
mented and slightly advanced central bay flanked by plain paired pilasters.
Sash windows with glazing bars beneath skewback arches. Stone porch with
pilasters and deep plain entablature. Narrow semicircular flanking windows
and 2-leaf panelled door. Moulded brick platband, moulded cornices and arms
in central pediment with motto "cor unum via una". Paired pilasters to angles
and to pedimented gable-ends. Rear wing of 3 bays of sashes with glazing bars
beneath skewback arches. Raised panels above first floor windows. South facade
in red brick with slightly advanced lateral bays with broken pediments forming
imposts of semicircular headed windows. Interior. Fine stone flying stair
with decorative cast iron balusters, lantern and plasterwork. Hall of 3 groin
vaulted, 3-centred bays. Fine Regency plasterwork throughout main rooms. One
late C19 fireplace with abstract geometrical motifs designed by Jekyll and
produced by Barnard, Bishop and Barnard (foundries) of Norwich.
Listing NGR: TF9207126488
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 220472
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.
End of official listing