Leicester Square Farmhouse With Quadrant Wings Attached to North and South
LEICESTER SQUARE FARMHOUSE WITH QUADRANT WINGS ATTACHED TO NORTH AND SOUTH, FAKENHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153226
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Leicester Square Farmhouse With Quadrant Wings Attached to North and South
- Statutory Address:
- LEICESTER SQUARE FARMHOUSE WITH QUADRANT WINGS ATTACHED TO NORTH AND SOUTH, FAKENHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153226
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Leicester Square Farmhouse With Quadrant Wings Attached to North and South
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEICESTER SQUARE FARMHOUSE WITH QUADRANT WINGS ATTACHED TO NORTH AND SOUTH, FAKENHAM ROAD
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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:
- LEICESTER SQUARE FARMHOUSE WITH QUADRANT WINGS ATTACHED TO NORTH AND SOUTH, FAKENHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Creake
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 86581 33692
Details
TF 83 SE SOUTH CREAKE FAKENHAM ROAD (south)
5/53 Leicester Square Farmhouse with quadrant wings attached to north and south.
II
Farmhouse with quadrant wings attached to north and south. 1793 by Samuel Wyatt, architect, for the Leicester Estate. Gault brick mathematical tiles, gault brick dressings, C20 pantile roof replacement. Central 2 storey 3 bay house with single storey 4 bay quadrant wings. Garden front has rendered half basement plinth with 2 semi-circular cast-iron fixed casements. 2 ground and 3 first floor sashes with glazing bars under flat rubbed brick arches. Central entrance on 5 stone steps has Doric pilasters and pediment. 2 leaf part glazed doors with glazed side lights. Central bay brought forward with eaves level pediment with blank round arch centrepiece. Moulded brick cornices. Hipped roof with 2 sashes. 2 bay north and south returns and one with removed pediment. Quadrant wings to north and south have one surviving pedimented and one removed pediment door architraves. To farmyard, 2 ground and 3 first floor sashes with glazing bars, central door under pentice canopy. Returns of quadrants to north and south naves. 3 Leicester Estate 3-light cast iron fixed casements, boarded doors. 3 north and 2 south gault brick stacks. South quadrant terminated by single storey red brick hipped roof game-larder, north quadrant by rebuilt C20 balancing block. Courtyard enclosed by brick walls swept at north and south, with rebuilt C20 piers at centre. Interior has well staircase with first floor landing segmental arch with rosettes to intrados. Forms centrepiece and west range of Leicester Estate model farm layout. See also Compton Hall Farmhouse, South Creake (q.v.) J.M. Robinson The Wyatts, an architectural dynasty (Oxford) 1979 p.257.
Listing NGR: TF8658133692
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 221637
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Robinson, J M, The Wyatt Family An Architectural Dynasty, (1979), 257
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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