NUNNERY GATEWAY

NUNNERY GATEWAY, NUNNERY DRIVE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1207969
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: NUNNERY GATEWAY
Statutory Address:: NUNNERY GATEWAY, NUNNERY DRIVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1207969
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: NUNNERY GATEWAY
Statutory Address 1:: NUNNERY GATEWAY, NUNNERY DRIVE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NUNNERY GATEWAY, NUNNERY DRIVE

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:: TL8718382270

Details

TL8782 617-1/8/118 26/02/87

THETFORD NUNNERY DRIVE (West side) Nunnery Gateway

II

Gateway to precinct of Benedictine nunnery of St George. c1600. Red brick. Western face with rounded archway within square spandrels formed from hollow-moulded field. Plain responds. One flanking tapering pilaster right and left rises to support a plain frieze. Eastern face has a plain field containing the round arch. Moulded stone string course at respond level.

Listing NGR: TL8718382270

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 384788
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.