The Old Reading Room
THE OLD READING ROOM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253440
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Reading Room
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD READING ROOM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253440
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Reading Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD READING ROOM
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:
- THE OLD READING ROOM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Massingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 79907 22900
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:-
GREAT MASSINGHAM - TF 7922 9/10003 The Old Reading Room
II
School, reused as reading room. Mid to late 1830s. Flemish bond red brick. Slate roof with gabled ends, deep eaves and verges. Small brick stack at east gable end. Plan: Rectangular 2-room plan, central partition now removed; bathrooms heated from gable end stacks. C20 outshut added on west end. Tudor style. Exterior: 1 storey. 2-window south front with chamfered brick window openings and doorway to right of centre, all with brick hoodmoulds, the doorway with chamfered wooden frame and 4-centred arch wooden spandrels; the windows boarded over: 3 similar small windows on rear (N) elevation; all with chamfered wooden 3-light frames and casements. Rusticated brick quoins and brick dentil course below eaves. Gabled louvred ventilator on right to right (E) of centre. External brick stack at east end with set-offs. Interior: Exposed brick walls and central partition removed. West (left) room ceiled. East (right) room is open to roof with king- post and strut trusses. Chimneypieces removed from fireplaces at either end. Source: Depicted on the 1838 Tythe Map.
Listing NGR: TF7990722900
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436645
- 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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