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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- 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
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:
- 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.
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