LEICESTER SQUARE FARM BARN

LEICESTER SQUARE FARM BARN, FAKENHAM ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1153244
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: LEICESTER SQUARE FARM BARN
Statutory Address:: LEICESTER SQUARE FARM BARN, FAKENHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1153244
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: LEICESTER SQUARE FARM BARN
Statutory Address 1:: LEICESTER SQUARE FARM BARN, FAKENHAM ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LEICESTER SQUARE FARM BARN, 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 86668 33698

Details

TF 83 SE SOUTH CREAKE FAKENHAM ROAD (south)

5/55 Leicester Square Farm Barn.

G.V. II

Barn. 1793 by Samuel Wyatt for the Holkham Estate. English bond red brick, gault brick dressings, red pantiled roof. 2 storey elevation, 9 bays. Distinctive Neo-Classical style. East front has ground floor plinth. 6 honey- comb brick ventilation windows under segmental brick soldier arches arranged in single outer and paired centre bays. First floor gault brick plat-band forming sill of 6 semi-circular rubbed brick arched Diocletian honeycomb brick ventilation windows. 3 pedimented advanced opposed east and west cart entrances with segmental arches and plastered typanums. Moulded gault brick cornices and pediment, lead flashings. Dentil eaves cornice. North and south gables mid-C20 rebuilding. Central ridge weathervane. West elevation now intact in 2 south-west end bays only, with mid C19 lean-to outshut additions to north formerly repeated east. East range of symmetrical model farm layout.

Listing NGR: TF8666833698

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 221639
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.