Bretts Manor

Bretts Manor, The Common, Wacton, NR15 2UP

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1180030
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1981
List Entry Name:: Bretts Manor
Statutory Address:: Bretts Manor, The Common, Wacton, NR15 2UP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1180030
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1981
List Entry Name:: Bretts Manor
Statutory Address 1:: Bretts Manor, The Common, Wacton, NR15 2UP

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:: Bretts Manor, The Common, Wacton, NR15 2UP

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: South Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Wacton
National Grid Reference:: TM 18435 90680

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30/07/2018

TM 1890 28/1255

WACTON THE COMMON Bretts Manor

(Formerly listed as The White Cottage, WACTON COMMON)

II Late C14/early C15 "Wealden" house with open hall (not floored) with queen post roof with arched braces and with two storeyed bays at each end. Plastered timber-frame. Hipped thatched roof. Central hall with large six-light mullion window, two storeys at each end with small three- and four-light mullion windows. All windows replicas of original, one original four-light mullion window at rear. Doorway on right of hall to screens passage with modern oak door and arch.

Interior: the screen has been removed, but there are two shouldered arch doorways in the screens passage to the service room and the room above. Later lean-to on west end. Large modern one storey flat roofed wing at rear (north).

Listing NGR: TM1843590680

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Legacy System number:: 226299
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.