Beech House
BEECH HOUSE, NORTHWELL POOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269573
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Beech House
- Statutory Address:
- BEECH HOUSE, NORTHWELL POOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269573
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Beech House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEECH HOUSE, NORTHWELL POOL ROAD
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:
- BEECH HOUSE, NORTHWELL POOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swaffham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 82017 09263
Details
SWAFFHAM
TF8209 NORTHWELL POOL ROAD 809-1/6/80 (North side) 17/01/73 Beech House (Formerly Listed as: NORTHWELL POOL ROAD Beech Cottage)
II
House. Mid C18, extended c1910. Brick, stuccoed to south; roof of black-glazed pantiles. C18 south block with parallel north block added later. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and dormer attic. South front has a 2-window range. Canted window bay to ground floor added c1910 to left of a 2/2 unhorned sash. Two 3/6 unhorned sashes to first floor. Modillion eaves cornice. Hipped roof with 2 flat-topped dormers fitted with 4/8 unhorned sashes. Ridge stack and a stack on west roof slope. North block projects to west: in the entrant angle is a 2-storey projection of c1910 lit through casements at first floor with glazing bars. To left of this at first floor is a rounded bay window with casements with glazing bars. North front is a 4-window range. Central 6-panelled and fielded door within timber doorcase consisting of fluted pilasters carrying an open segmental pediment. Fenestration of segmental-headed 8/8 unhorned sashes. Modillion eaves cornice and hipped roof in which are 2 flat-topped dormers, the left one with two 2/4 horned sashes, the right with one 4/8 horned sash. Stacks on east and west roof slopes. INTERIOR: C18 open-string staircase with bobbin-turned balusters and a ramped and moulded handrail. Upper staircase hall has a wide barrel-vaulted plaster ceiling lit by tripartite casements at east and west ends: panelled pilasters to wall continue as ribs into the vault; egg-and-dart cornice.
Listing NGR: TF8201709263
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460638
- 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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