LEICESTER SQUARE FARM BARN

Overview

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

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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.

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