Guild House
GUILD HOUSE, SCHOOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169058
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Guild House
- Statutory Address:
- GUILD HOUSE, SCHOOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169058
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Guild House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUILD HOUSE, SCHOOL 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:
- GUILD HOUSE, SCHOOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elsing
- National Grid Reference:
- TG0529316977
Details
TG 01 NE
4/21
ELSING
SCHOOL ROAD (west side)
Guild House
- II
House. Mid C17 and later.
Brick in English bond with French pantile roof. Brick and flint plinth. Single bay plan with later side addition. 2 storeys and cellar. North facade with doorway opposite gable-end stack. Door with moulded cover strips. One 2-light and one 3-light chamfered mullion windows. Row of 11 small shallow niches with arched heads beneath eaves: probably former pigeon nesting boxes. C18 dentil cornice. Nest gable-end with 2 original window openings with stuccoed moulded brick pediments and modern 5-light windows. Gable rebuilt to shallow pitch. Traces of diaper pattern in black headers to both sides of first floor window. South facade with 2 original large window openings with moulded brick pediment to ground floor window.only. Modern 5-light frames. Ovolo-moulded 2-light mullion window opposite stack. East gable-end projects beyond line of gable resembling a staged buttress. Rebuilt gable. Modern extensions to this gable-end and to south.
Interior. Several original doorways with ogee and nicked chamfer stops. Winding stair beside stack formerly leading to both cellar and attic. One ovolo-moulded spinal bridging joist with ogee and nicked chamfer stops. Fireplace with cambered bressumner. Cellar takes up the full bay and was formerly lit by 3 splayed windows.
Listing NGR: TG0529316977
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220727
- 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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