Stables With Loft and Engine House at Cross House Farm
STABLES WITH LOFT AND ENGINE HOUSE AT CROSS HOUSE FARM, NORMANS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262246
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Stables With Loft and Engine House at Cross House Farm
- Statutory Address:
- STABLES WITH LOFT AND ENGINE HOUSE AT CROSS HOUSE FARM, NORMANS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262246
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Stables With Loft and Engine House at Cross House Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLES WITH LOFT AND ENGINE HOUSE AT CROSS HOUSE FARM, NORMANS LANE
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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:
- STABLES WITH LOFT AND ENGINE HOUSE AT CROSS HOUSE FARM, NORMANS LANE
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:
- North Creake
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 85426 38499
Details
The following buildings shall be added to the list:-
TF 83 NE NORTH CREAKE NORMANS LANE
Stables with loft and 5/10000 engine house at Cross House Farm
GV II
Stables with loft and integral horse engine house. Circa 1840 remodelling of a circa 1800 or earlier building. English and Flemish bond red brick with remains of earlier clunch and flint rubble at west end. Pantile roofs with gabled ends; hipped over engine house. Plan: Main range comprises 2 large equal-size stables with tack room, lobby and staircase at centre and a large loft above divided into 3 bays corresponding to ground floor bays. Small 1 bay single storey stable added at either end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical S front. To left and right stable door with flanking windows and small loft door above, all with segmental brick arches; projecting at centre a semi-octagonal engine house with low hipped roof and small openings high in walls. At rear (N) 2 loft doors and central window on first floor and small window at centre of ground floor. The south end has ventilation holes in gable and reset tablet inscribed 'E.S. 1800'. North end has ventilation slit and blocked window in gable. Short single storey stables at either end. Interior: Stables have mangers and some stall partitions and in stables and tack room there are some saddle racks on the walls. Lobby has wheel-pit and shaft housing and stairs to loft. 3-bay loft with 2 large round arches (smaller has sliding door) in brick partitions, and clutch and shaft wheel of head of shaft. Engine house retains original circa 1840 machinery: a low level cast- iron spur wheel, draw-poles for four horses surmounted by wooden platform with a stool for driver. The drive shaft leads to belt wheel in pit, at centre of main range, up to wheel in loft, probably driving a chaff-cutting machine producing feed for working horses in stables below. Tie-beam and collar roof trusses with iron ties and through purlins.
Note: Cross House Farm is one of 3 farms an Earl Spencer's 3,000 acre North Creake estate. The third Earl Spencer (1782-1845) was founder and first president of the Royal Agricultural Society, and a fellow agriculturalist and friend of Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester of Holkham nearby.
Listing NGR: TF8542638499
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 359838
- 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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