Hempnall House
HEMPNALL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262145
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Hempnall House
- Statutory Address:
- HEMPNALL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262145
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Hempnall House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEMPNALL HOUSE
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:
- HEMPNALL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hempnall
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 24263 92514
Details
TM 29 SW HEMPNALL LUNDY GREEN
9/10008 Hempnall House
GV II
House. Late C16 with C17 extension. Added front pile of 1871. Later additions. Rear pile: Timber-frame faced with colour-washed brick. Fishscale slate roof; concrete tiles to rear pitch. Rectangular in plan with off-centre axial stack. C19 brick east gable-end with crowstepped parapet. 2 storeys with attic east of stack. Scattered fenestration of mainly casement windows with part of one surviving ovolo-moulded mullion window. East gable- end with 2 sash windows beneath skewback arches. Two modern outshuts to north. Interior: Two queen-post trusses to west of stack. Two bays east of stack with upper crucks. 1871 pile: Gault brick with slate roof. Symmetrical 3-bay plan with projecting enclosed central porch. Pair of stacks to rear wall. 2 storeys. Tripartite sashes with vertical glazing bars and horns beneath skewback arches to side bays. Panelled front door with rectangular fanlight. Plain doorcase with hood on brackets displaying date. Single sash window with vertical glazing bars and horns above. Crowstep gable to porch with obelisk kneelers and studded globe to apex. Crowstep gable-ends. Guilloche-moulded median stringcourse and moulded dentil cornice. Later extensions to west.
Listing NGR: TM2426392514
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435763
- 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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