Providence Cottage

PROVIDENCE COTTAGE, LOWER STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1180125
Date first listed:
16-May-1984
List Entry Name:
Providence Cottage
Statutory Address:
PROVIDENCE COTTAGE, LOWER STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1180125
Date first listed:
16-May-1984
List Entry Name:
Providence Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
PROVIDENCE COTTAGE, LOWER STREET

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PROVIDENCE COTTAGE, LOWER STREET

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
Broadland (District Authority)
Parish:
Salhouse
National Grid Reference:
TG 30663 14316

Details

TG 31 SW SALHOUSE LOWER STREET north side

7/72 Providence Cottage.

G.V. II

House, formerly an estate cottage. Mainly C19, but incorporating earlier re-used material, and possibly with earlier core. Red brick, black-glazed and smut pantiles. Two storeys, with 1½ storey range to west. Two storey block with symmetrical facade : two ground floor sashes with glazing bars, two 3-light first floor casements. Windows set in chamfered gault brick surrounds. Window bays slightly advanced. Central doorway with lean-to canopy on timber brackets. Gault brick panel with the initials RW set above doorway. Parapeted gables with external stacks, that at the west gable larger. Single- storey lean-to at east gable. Two small brick buttresses on south wall. 1½ storey block to west elaborately decorated and partly timber-framed. Slightly advanced two-storey bay off-centre with plain tiled gabled roof: two three-light square-headed windows with arched and cusped heads to lights. Three terra-cotta panels at first floor level, possibly re-used chimney shaft bricks. Upper window flanked by large console brackets supporting roof structure. Timber panel above window head with motto "God's providence is mine inheritance." Wall to right of bay partly timber framed with brick infill. Small arched window with leaded glazing. Arched doorway in chamfered brick surround to left of bay. Crow-stepped west gable; attic window with gabled hood. Lean-to extension at rear.

Listing NGR: TG3066314316

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
228205
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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