Ashdell House
ASHDELL HOUSE, TABERNACLE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252706
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Ashdell House
- Statutory Address:
- ASHDELL HOUSE, TABERNACLE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252706
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Ashdell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHDELL HOUSE, TABERNACLE LANE
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:
- ASHDELL HOUSE, TABERNACLE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Forncett
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 14209 93657
Details
1. 5321 FORNCETT Tabernacle Lane (east side) TM 19 SW 7/1197 Ashdell House
II
2. House. Late C17, altered in late C19. Timber-framed, clad in late C19 red brick with rusticated quoins to stucco front; gabled pantile roof; brick ridge stack. 3-unit lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Gabled porch with carved bargeboards and pilasters to bracketed flat hood over Tudor-arched doorway: flanked by lean-to bay windows with revealed decorative tile panels; first floor 4-pane sashes. Flat brick arches over windows to sides and rear. Interior: exposed timber frame with jowled and unjowled storey posts; ground floor room to right (former parlour) has ovolo-moulded beams with elaborate niched stops and ovolo-moulded bressummer with similar niched stop over blocked open fireplace; central room (former hall) has stop-chamfered beams, soffit mortices for removed mullioned window to rear and chamfered bressummer with elaborate niched stops over blocked open fireplace; service area to left has original lateral partition and stop-chamfered beam and morticing to soffit of beam marking position of original transerve partition; original transverse partition to first floor.
Listing NGR: TM1420993657
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435757
- 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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