Abbotsford
ABBOTSFORD, 12, VICAR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196662
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Abbotsford
- Statutory Address:
- ABBOTSFORD, 12, VICAR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196662
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Abbotsford
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBOTSFORD, 12, VICAR 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.
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:
- ABBOTSFORD, 12, VICAR STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wymondham
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 10738 01688
Details
WYMONDHAM
TG1001 VICAR STREET 655-1/8/165 (West side) 14/07/72 No.12 Abbotsford
GV II
House, partly converted to flats. c1830. Gault brick with slate roofs. South-east front faces road. 2 storey main block in 3 bays. Gabled projecting porch with doorcase comprising reeded Tuscan columns below a metope hood. Fenestration of sashes with glazing bars, those to ground floor set within recessed Soanian-like arches. Upper windows with gauged skewback arches. Paired panel eaves cornice below shallow hipped roof. Garden front similar. To north-east a similar 3-bay addition links original block to a gabled pavilion rising through 2 storeys. INTERIOR. Various pieces of floral plasterwork adorn the principal rooms. Short staircase approaches right-hand ground-floor room which is arranged in imitation of a medieval hall with a further staircase at the "solar" end.
Listing NGR: TG1073801688
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386234
- 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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