Union House
UNION HOUSE, LITCHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168637
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Union House
- Statutory Address:
- UNION HOUSE, LITCHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168637
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Union House
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNION HOUSE, LITCHAM 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:
- UNION HOUSE, LITCHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gressenhall
- National Grid Reference:
- TF9741717014
Details
TF 91 NE
3/18
4/12/51
GRESSENHALL
LITCHAM ROAD
(north west side)
Union House (formerly listed as Union Work-house)
II
Former workhouse, now museum and offices. 1777. Brick with pantile roofs.
plan main block with a long right-angled adjoining wing forming a courtyard.
Main block. 2 storeys with symmetrical facade flanked by projecting side
wings. 5 bays (not including side wings) with 3 centre bays slightly advanced
and surmounted by a pediment with clockface in tympanum. Sash windows with
glazing bars beneath skewback arches with cambered soffits. 3 centre bays
with an extra intermediate level of pivot windows with glazing bars. 2 door-
ways, one to each side, with semicircular fanlights. Plain platband and
moulded brick modillion cornice. Sawtooth cornice to rear. Arched bell
cupola on roof ridge. Adjoining wing. 2 storeys. 14 bays to eastern branch
and 12 to southern. 2 square, taller, 3-storey blocks at angle and end of
south wing with pyramidal roofs. Former continuous portico of semicircular
arches now glazed with sash windows and some lunettes. Upper storey of sash
windows with glazing bars. Plain platband. Various later additions to rear
of both sections.
Listing NGR: TF9741717014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220765
- 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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