1-8, Fairfields
FAIRFIELDS, 1-8
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248339
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 1-8, Fairfields
- Statutory Address:
- FAIRFIELDS, 1-8
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248339
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 1-8, Fairfields
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIRFIELDS, 1-8
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:
- FAIRFIELDS, 1-8
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blo' Norton
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 01457 79934
Details
The following item shall be added:
TM 07 NW BLO'NORTON FAIRFIELDS Nos 1 to 8 8/111 (consecutive) GV II
4 pairs of semi-detached council houses. Dated 1922 by George J Skipper. Clay lump with pargetted render in herringbone pattern. Pantile roof with plain bargeboards to gable ends and overhanging eaves. Central axial stack with small brick shaft on ridge.
Plan: 4 pairs of cottages arranged in crescent formation. Each pair has mirror-image plan with principal front rooms at the centre, a doorway to the left and right and short wings to the back with small single storey wings beyond.
Exterior: Single storey and attic. Symmetrical fronts, each pair with a small central gable with 2-light casements with timber drip shelf and a laurel wreath in the apex (Nos 3 and 4 with initials T.R.DC for Thetford Rural District Council and Nos 5 and 6 with date 1922). Two and 3-light casements below flanked by half-glazed doors and simple flat-roofed wooden porches. Nos 3, 7 and 8 have larger later C20 gabled porches and Nos 1 to 6 have replacement casements with top-opening lights. Under the eaves above each doorway a very small square window. At the rear short gabled wings to right and left with single storey gabled-ended wings below and gable at the centre.
Interiors not inspected.
Fairfields was designed by Skipper for the Thetford Rural District Council as part of an experiment in cheap house building techniques q.v. The Crescent, East Harling, Norfolk.
Source: Skipper Family Papers, Thetford Local Authority Housing sketchbook 36 in RIBA Drawings Collection.
Listing NGR: TM0145779934
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429914
- 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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