Old Cavell Vicarage
OLD CAVELL VICARAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170259
- Date first listed:
- 26-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Cavell Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- OLD CAVELL VICARAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170259
- Date first listed:
- 26-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Cavell Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD CAVELL VICARAGE
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:
- OLD CAVELL VICARAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swardeston
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 19964 02423
Details
TG 10 SE SWARDESTON
5/103 Old Cavell Vicarage
II
Vicarage, dated 1865, for Revd. Frederick Cavell. Brick with stone quoins and some stone dressings; slate roof with bands of hexagonal slates. Square, 3 bays, 2 storeys. Each facade with gable to left hand bay, those to east and south with decorative cusped and pierced barge boards; double sawtooth brick cornice and decorative platband; quoined stone surrounds and segmental arches of brick and stone to openings. Entrance facade to east: bay 1 ground floor with 3-light transomed casement, first floor with 3-light casement having pointed relieving arch containing moulded decorative bricks, gable with F C and 1 8 6 5 individually in stone; central bay with pointed Gothick doorway having an octogoil light and two blank trefoils in stone under arch, double leaved part-glazed door to internal porch; bay 3 with bay window to ground floor having slate roof and decorative brick cornice, 4-light transomed casements with stone quoins. Garden facade to south: bay 1 with triangular sectioned bay window to left and cross window to right of ground floor, first floor opening as to east facade but with flat stone lintel and stone dressings to corners only; central bay recessed; third bay with large canted bay to ground floor with pierced trefoil parapet, ashlar to lower part of bay, brick above, central cant with double leaved part-glazed doors, side cant with cross windows, first floor with 3-light casement. Facade to north bay 1 with gable end external stack, double Gothick lights to ground floor right; bays 2 and 3 with 2 and 3-light casements to first floor; Gothick doorway between bays 2 and 3. Listed as an unaltered example of a mid C19 parsonage and for historical associations; Frederick Cavell was vicar 1863-1909; the Vicarage was the home of Edith Cavell b. 1863, d. 1915.
Listing NGR: TG1996402423
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 226988
- 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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