Cottage North of Orchardleigh

COTTAGE NORTH OF ORCHARDLEIGH, NORWICH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1245359
Date first listed:
15-May-1997
List Entry Name:
Cottage North of Orchardleigh
Statutory Address:
COTTAGE NORTH OF ORCHARDLEIGH, NORWICH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1245359
Date first listed:
15-May-1997
List Entry Name:
Cottage North of Orchardleigh
Statutory Address 1:
COTTAGE NORTH OF ORCHARDLEIGH, NORWICH ROAD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
COTTAGE NORTH OF ORCHARDLEIGH, NORWICH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Norfolk
District:
South Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Long Stratton
National Grid Reference:
TM 19985 93475

Details

TM 1993 LONG STRATTON NORWICH ROAD
(East side)
974/27/10016
Cottage north of
Orchardleigh

GV II

House. C17 with C18-C20 alterations. Rendered timber-frame with pantile roof and brick stack. Render lined to imitate ashlar. South gable-end faced with brick. 3-unit lobby-entry plan with off-centre axial stack to right. Single storey and attic; 3-window range of C20 2- and 3-light casements. Door to right opposite stack. Pair of 2-light gabled dormers above.
INTERIOR. Left service end partition survives with service rooms divided into two. The studwork is not visible. Chamfered bridging beam to hall. Lobby opposite door with winder stair in original position. Parlour has three transverse chamfered bridging beams. The upper floor reveals evidence of the timber-frame with braced jowled corner posts and gable-end tie beams in situ. Evidence of two former mullion windows. Probably C18 butt-purlin roof.
Forms a group with Orchardleigh (qv) to the south.

Listing NGR: TM1998593475

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
468701
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.

Ordnance survey map of Cottage North of Orchardleigh

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