Ford Place and Attached Grotto
FORD PLACE AND ATTACHED GROTTO, FORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207667
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Ford Place and Attached Grotto
- Statutory Address:
- FORD PLACE AND ATTACHED GROTTO, FORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207667
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Ford Place and Attached Grotto
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORD PLACE AND ATTACHED GROTTO, FORD 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:
- FORD PLACE AND ATTACHED GROTTO, FORD 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 87429 82664
Details
THETFORD
TL8782 FORD STREET 617-1/8/62 (South West side) 03/04/51 Ford Place and attached grotto (Formerly Listed as: FORD STREET (South West side) Ford Place)
GV II
House, now residential home for elderly. Early C19, additions of c1860. Gault brick. Roofs of black-glazed pantiles. Double-pile plan. 2-3 storeys. Irregular facade to north in 3 distinct elements, all with different roof lines. East part with double-leaf glazed door set within a doorcase consisting of engaged reeded and fluted Ionic columns supporting a dentilled pediment. To left is a first-floor staircase window with 6/6 glazing bars and a rounded head. Fenestration generally of 6/6 sashes with gauged skewback arches. Gabled and hipped roofs. Multiple stacks. South front has balanced asymmetry: 2 hipped elements broken forward right and left, that to right (east) with a full-height canted bay. The other with 2 hipped through-eaves dormers, probably c1860. Immediately west of house (and attached to it) is a 3-bay, single-storey grotto of whole flints: a central pointed doorway flanked by a pointed Y-tracery window right and left. INTERIOR: staircase mid C19: 2 twisted balusters per tread and moulded handrail. Main rooms with dentil cornices and marble fireplaces. 6-panelled doors.
Listing NGR: TL8742982664
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384729
- 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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