Churchgate House
CHURCHGATE HOUSE, 8, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196693
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Churchgate House
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCHGATE HOUSE, 8, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196693
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Churchgate House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCHGATE HOUSE, 8, CHURCH 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:
- CHURCHGATE HOUSE, 8, CHURCH 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 10844 01541
Details
WYMONDHAM
TG1001 CHURCH STREET 655-1/8/36 (North West side) 29/12/50 No.8 Churchgate House
GV II
House. Early C16. Timber-framed with rendered and colourwashed brick facade. Plaintile roof, corrugated tile to rear slopes. L-plan. Main part of front of 2 storeys and dormer attic in 3 bays. Panelled central door with timber doorcase and plain hood. One early C19 three-light casement right and left. 2 similar casements above these and a 2-light casement over door. Gabled roof in 2 pitches with one gabled dormer. Internal gable end stack to north, rebuilt. Adjacent bay to south has a garage door to ground floor and exposed studs above. One upper window. Gabled roof with rebuilt ridge stack. 2 storey cross wing extends to rear to right of a 2-light ovolo moulded first floor window to rear of front range. North side of cross wing with an outshut to ground floor. Above is an 8-light diamond mullioned window. Gabled roof in 2 pitches. Rebuilt stacks. South side with a gabled dormer. INTERIOR. Timber-framed passage leads from street door. Main room to south with chamfered bridging beam. Inserted early C17 fireplace and stack. Fireplace bressumer with sunk quadrant moulding and one rose medallion each side (one York, the other Lancaster). Corresponding room north of passage lined out c1950. Staircase turret inserted in internal angle of cross wing c1560: closed string, turned and pillar balusters and newels, mostly late C20 replacements. Upper floor with heavy scantling studs, jowled principal studs and arched braces to rear wall of front range. North first-floor room with 4-centred brick fireplace, as has rear wing first-floor room. Roof of main range of diminished principals, collars, 2 tiers butt purlins and curved windbracing. Rear range roof of principals, 2 tiers butt purlins and some straight windbracing.
Listing NGR: TG1084401541
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386097
- 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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