Poplars
POPLARS, ASHWELLTHORPE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1152496
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Poplars
- Statutory Address:
- POPLARS, ASHWELLTHORPE ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/04802/12
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1152496
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Poplars
- Statutory Address 1:
- POPLARS, ASHWELLTHORPE 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:
- POPLARS, ASHWELLTHORPE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wreningham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM1559298416
Details
TM 19 NE
5/117
WRENINGHAM
ASHWELLTHORPE ROAD
(west side)
Poplars
GV
II*
Farmhouse. 1586 according to renewed datestones at bases of chimneys.
Rendered timber frame with returned brick gable-ends. T plan formed by
contemporary service extension to rear. 2 storeys with attic. 5-bay facade
with a central 2-storey porch with a C19 2-leaf front door with bracketted
hood. 3-light C18 window above. Decorative pendants from projecting wall-
plate ends. C18 fenestration with 5 4-light mullion and transom windows
and 3 of 3 lights without transoms. Metal casements and some surviving
leaded lights. 2 sloping dormers with 3-light casements. Crow-stepped
gables and 3, partly rebuilt, octagonal chimney shafts at each end. Both
stacks flanked by pairs of small openings with moulded brick stuccoed pedi-
ments and stuccoed reveals. 2 windows to north retain original single
diamond mullions. Pairs of oculi to attic with raised stuccoed reveals.
2 storey service wing partly rebuilt. C20 lean-to. Winding stair beside
south stack survives from first floor to attic. Dog-leg main stair to
north of centre with acorn newel knop and substantial handrail of elliptical
section. High quality frame of 4 bays with an 8-bay clasped purlin roof
with wind bracing. Some joists with angle rolls to one side only. Some
nicked chamfer stops to door frames. Several original doors with fielded
centre panels.
Listing NGR: TM1559298416
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 226694
- 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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