The Limes
THE LIMES, 32, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207488
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1971
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address:
- THE LIMES, 32, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207488
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LIMES, 32, BRIDGE 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:
- THE LIMES, 32, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thetford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 86729 82957
Details
THETFORD
TL8682 BRIDGE STREET 617-1/7/17 (North West side) 10/03/71 No.32 The Limes (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET (North West side) Nos.32 AND 32A)
GV II
House, now offices. c1760, converted 1989. Red brick under slate roofs. L-shaped plan. 2 storeys, the street facade in 3 bays. Doorcase set to left with panelled reveals, block entablatures and missing a pediment. This leads to small late C20 lobby with 2 doors to different premises. 2 late C18 unhorned sashes left with 8/8 glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. They have flush frames. 3 similar first-floor sashes. Paired modillion eaves cornice and gabled roof, heightened c1900 at same time as No.30 (qv). Stack to left. Garden front of 2 storeys in 6 bays. Ground floor has six 2-light French windows under gauged skewback arches. First floor with 6 early C19 recessed sashes with 6/6 glazing bars. Gauged skewback arches. Plain parapet. Hipped roof with a ridge stack right of centre and an external gable-end stack to north-west return. 1989 extension added to this gable. INTERIOR: open-well cut-string staircase with 2 turned balusters per tread and a ramped and wreathed handrail. Returns as balcony at first floor. Rooms partitioned C20 as offices. Roof of King-post trusses, c1900.
Listing NGR: TL8672982957
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384682
- 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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