ROCKET HOUSE

ROCKET HOUSE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1172519
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: ROCKET HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ROCKET HOUSE, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1172519
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: ROCKET HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ROCKET HOUSE, HIGH STREET

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ROCKET HOUSE, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: North Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Cley Next the Sea
National Grid Reference:: TG 04526 43814

Details

TG 0443 CLEY NEXT THE SEA HIGH STREET

9/31 Rocket House

GV II

House, mid C18 on earlier core, brick colourwashed pink, black glazed pantiles. 3 bays, rear extension to centre and left bays, 2 storeys and attic. Raised gable parapets, end internal stacks; recessed sashes with glazing bars, 2 to ground floor, 3 to first floor. Central doorway enclosed by C19 porch, brick base renewed after 1953 floods, upper part glazed with fixed lights, flat roof having parapet of spiked iron bars. Double leaved 6 panelled door with panelled reveals. Semicircular lead covered roof dormer having 4 fixed panes. left hand gable rendered; rear raised to give 2 storey extemsion, casement window with pintle hinges to raised part, 2 lights, one with leaded panes. Right gable against Whalebone House (qv 9/30). Interior: door opens to double depth left hand room; doorcases with reeded surrounds, 6 panelled doors. Fire surround with swags, raised lozenge outline on ceiling, dado rail with wave decoration. Open string curved staircase in rear extension to right, wreathed mahogany handrail with turned newel, square sectioned balusters, octagonal lantern above rising from beehive aperture through loft. Fire surrounds to first floor front rooms with swags and patera. Butt purlin roof, wide collars, no ridge piece, most rafters of reused ships spars; large stacks, loft to rear over extension; original flint wall visible to front, now brick faced.

Listing NGR: TG0452643814

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Legacy System number:: 224581
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.