Whitehouse Farmhouse
WHITEHOUSE FARMHOUSE, ELDER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168959
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Whitehouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WHITEHOUSE FARMHOUSE, ELDER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168959
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Whitehouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITEHOUSE FARMHOUSE, ELDER LANE
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:
- WHITEHOUSE FARMHOUSE, ELDER LANE
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:
- Grimston
- National Grid Reference:
- TF7225521459
Details
TF 72 SW
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GRIMSTON
ELDER LANE
Whitehouse Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, late C16, altered C18. Colourwashed, mainly clunch with some carstone, brick dressings. Blue glazed pantiles, gable parapets, end internal stacks, central axial stack. 4 bays, 2 storeys and attic, western part of range raised from 1½ storeys, timber frame enclosed, re-roofed at shallower pitch C18. Principal facade to south: full height vertical join between bays 3 and 4; gardrobe chute in flint and brick to left angle; doorway between bays 2 and 3 with open pediment and panelled reveals, 6 panelled door with upper two panels glazed. Varied and altered fenestration: casements to bay 1, fixed window to ground floor and 6 paned sash to first floor of bay 2, third bay with first floor casement only, fourth bay with 6 paned flush sashes; third and fourth bay with windows to eaves. Left return to west: brick plinth, rendered brick and flint, clunch above eaves, 2 small openings to chimney bay stair left and to first floor right. Windowless addition to left in English bond and pantiles, stack to west wall. Facade to north: carstone and flint plinth, walls of flint carstone and brick, decorative brick cornice; 2 bay 2 storey forward wing to bay 4 with doorway to right of left return. Varied and altered fenestration: bay 1 with part glazed door, doorway with C18 brick jambs and flat arch, renewed 3-light casement above; bay 2 with flush sash with glazing bars to ground floor, 3-light casement to first floor; bay 3 with blocked doorway left, 3-light casements to ground and first floor; fourth bay with doorway having gabled canopy to left, forward wing to right.
Interior: 8 bay 3 tier butt purlin roof with principal rafters of oak, rafters in split pine. Internal walls in clunch, west gable raised; attic floor to west lower than present eaves, 34cm oak boards. Western two cells: Principal beams and window lintels with bar stopped chamfered beams, large ceiling joists; west gable end fire place having massive beam above, salt hole to left, encased staircase to right; first floor with timber uprights and rails encased or removed, partition wall between bays 3 and 4 timber studded with wavy braces, moulded beam to gable end fire place. Door to stair with wide boards and splayed hinges.
Listing NGR: TF7225521459
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 221964
- 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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