Priory Farmhouse

Priory Farmhouse, Beccles Road, St Olaves, NR31 9HE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1172320
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1954
List Entry Name:: Priory Farmhouse
Statutory Address:: Priory Farmhouse, Beccles Road, St Olaves, NR31 9HE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1172320
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: Priory Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:: Priory Farmhouse, Beccles Road, St Olaves, NR31 9HE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Priory Farmhouse, Beccles Road, St Olaves, NR31 9HE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Norfolk
District:: Great Yarmouth (District Authority)
Parish:: Fritton and St. Olaves
National Park:: THE BROADS
National Grid Reference:: TM 45854 99576

Details

TM 49 NE 10/27

FRITTON & ST. OLAVES BECCLES ROAD (north side) Priory Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as Priory Farmhouse and barn and in Herringfleet CP)

27.11.54

G.V. II

Farmhouse. Two builds. Southern brick and tile block of early C19, altered late C20. Northern brick and flint block of post-Reformation origins on earlier monastic site re-using material from St. Olave's Priory. Greatly altered 1986. Thatched roof. C16 block of two storeys. East side entered through arched moulded brick doorway with hood mould, set to left. Similar blocked doorway once existed to right. C20 door in doorway. Central three-light casement of 1986. Two similar two-light casements to first floor. Gabled roof. C20 one storey gabled brick extension to north. West side faced with brick. Ground floor French windows to right and two two-light first floor windows, all of 1986. Many bricks are re-used medieval material. Two bridging beams survive in interior, otherwise entirely C20. C19 block of two storeys. Gabled roof with central ridge stack. C20 casements and doorways at predictable intervals. This block abuts the two surviving rooms of Jerningham's house north of St. Olaves Priory refectory. Sir Henry Jerningham purchased the priory at the Dissolution.

Listing NGR: TM4585499576

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 227762
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.