The Monastery
The Monastery, The Street, Happisburgh, NR12 0AB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169888
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Monastery
- Statutory Address:
- The Monastery, The Street, Happisburgh, NR12 0AB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169888
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Monastery
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Monastery, The Street, Happisburgh, NR12 0AB
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:
- The Monastery, The Street, Happisburgh, NR12 0AB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Happisburgh
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 38033 31069
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/02/2020
TG 33 SE
5/45
HAPPISBURGH
THE STREET (east side)
The Monastery
[Formerly listed under WHIMPWELL STREET (east side)]
G.V.
II
Monastic Grange, now private house. Early C16, altered C19 and C20. Flint (Quaternary), chert and brick with thatched roof. Originally an open hall house. Two storeys. West front with two central half glazed doors, two segmental-headed casements to ground floor and three to first floor. All details C20. Gabled roof with gable heads supported on kneelers. Internal gable end stacks. Gabled cross wing to rear of one storey and dormer attic. This wing is former hall. One door and two segmental-headed casements to ground floor, all C20. Two dormers under eyebrow thatching. East gable head on brick kneelers.
Interior. Hall entered through two four-centred brick arches, one now converted to a window, with double hollow mouldings. Arched and hollow moulded brick piscina in ground floor of original hall. Chamfered bridging beams to ceiling, floored probably C18. North-south range roof of ties and collars, the two linked by jowled Queen posts. Many renewed timbers. Over hall Crown post roof removed when this wing floored.
Listing NGR: TG3803331069
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 224260
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 19 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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