Cavick House Including Front Screen Walls
CAVICK HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT SCREEN WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1196716
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Cavick House Including Front Screen Walls
- Statutory Address:
- CAVICK HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT SCREEN WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1196716
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Cavick House Including Front Screen Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAVICK HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT SCREEN WALLS
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:
- CAVICK HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT SCREEN WALLS
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 10238 01265
Details
WYMONDHAM
TG1001 Cavick House including front screen 655-1/7/1 walls 29/12/50
GV I
House. Early C18. Red brick with painted quoins. Slate roof to front, pantiled to rear. 2 storeys and attic in 9 bays. Centre 5 bays set closer together than outer pairs. Arched panelled central door in timber case. Case with a pair of engaged Doric columns, interlace decoration to imposts and a floral frieze round arch. Pedimented hood. Arched cellar windows show to plinth course. String course at first floor. Fenestration of sashes of c1750 within flush frames. Timber egg-and-dart eaves cornice. Hipped roof with 2 ridge stacks and one further stack to each of the 2-storey, single-bay hipped blocks extending from returns. Extending in arcs from returns are screen walls terminating in gault brick rusticated piers. Rear elevation plainer: 3 distinct receding blocks, all hipped; one early C18 sash with glazing bars and 4 gabled dormers also with sashes. Main windows are 2-light cross casements. INTERIOR. Central staircase hall with large-framed panelling. Open-string staircase with 2 twisted balusters per tread and a moulded ramped handrail. Panelled dado. Room to north (dining room) with panelled doors in moulded surrounds, and a moulded cornice. Room to south (drawing room) has panelled doors with eared surrounds and high-quality plasterwork. Marble fireplace with a mantel supported on pair of scrolled consoles. Frieze with a central scene of a shepherd and dog chasing a wolf with a lamb. Flanking panels have relief floral motifs. Eared overmantel panel with decorated side scrolls and frieze terminating in a broken pediment. 6 wall panels are defined by high-relief floral and fruit trails, with sumounting swags, similarly embellished. Centre panel on west wall has a frieze including a bow and a quiver of arrows. Many 2-panelled doors and HL hinges, particularly to upper floor. Roof structure of 2 tiers butt purlins and collars.
Listing NGR: TG1023801265
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386050
- 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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