BORROW HALL INCLUDING FORECOURT WALLS

BORROW HALL INCLUDING FORECOURT WALLS, DUMPLING GREEN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246352
Date first listed:: 20-Aug-1951
List Entry Name:: BORROW HALL INCLUDING FORECOURT WALLS
Statutory Address:: BORROW HALL INCLUDING FORECOURT WALLS, DUMPLING GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246352
Date first listed:: 20-Aug-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jul-2000
List Entry Name:: BORROW HALL INCLUDING FORECOURT WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: BORROW HALL INCLUDING FORECOURT WALLS, DUMPLING GREEN

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:: BORROW HALL INCLUDING FORECOURT WALLS, DUMPLING GREEN

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: Breckland (District Authority)
Parish:: Dereham
National Grid Reference:: TG 00464 11935

Details

TG01SW 640/5/29 20-AUG-51

DUMPLING GREEN DUMPLING GREEN (North side) Borrow Hall including forecourt walls (Formerly listed as: DUMPLING GREEN Borrow House)

II

House. c1740. Red brick; black-glazed pantiles to south front, red pantiles to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5-window range. Plinth course. Central 6-panelled door with plain overlight. Plaque over door records house as birthplace of George Borrow. 6/6 unhorned sashes renewed 1990, those to ground floor under segmental heads. Platband to first floor. Modillion eaves cornice. Bell-based gabled roof with internal gable-end stacks east and west. Brick garden walls run south to road from each end of facade. Rear with 2-storey extension to east with one 6/6 unhorned sash to each floor of north gable end, renewed 1990. Full-length outshut to main block under catslide roof: one plank door, one half-glazed door and a 2-light C20 casement. INTERIOR: panelled window shutters in rear outshut. Front south-east room with inglenook fireplace with reused bridging beam as bressumer. Straight-flight staircase. First floor with 2-panelled doors on HL hinges. HISTORICAL NOTE: birthplace of novelist George Borrow (1803-81).

This asset was previously listed twice. The duplicate record (List entry number 1077071) was removed from the List on 5 July 2019.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 487151
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.