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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- 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
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:
- 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.
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