Gradys Hotel
GRADYS HOTEL, NORWICH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269574
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Gradys Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- GRADYS HOTEL, NORWICH ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04153/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269574
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Gradys Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRADYS HOTEL, NORWICH 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:
- GRADYS HOTEL, NORWICH 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 82335 08836
Details
SWAFFHAM
TF8208 NORWICH ROAD 809-1/8/81 (West side) 17/01/73 Grady's Hotel (Formerly Listed as: NORWICH ROAD Lydney House)
II
Shown on OS map as Lydney House. House, now hotel. c1760, converted late C20. Red brick; roof of mixed red and black-glazed pantiles. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3-window range. East front with central 6-panelled and fielded door set behind porch on unfluted Greek Doric columns. 6/6 unhorned sashes to ground and first floors, 3/3 to attic floor, all under gauged skewback arches. Brick bracketed eaves. Hipped roof with 2 stacks. North and south returns also 3-window ranges, centre windows blind, others with 6/6 unhorned sashes. Attached to south return is a single-storey C19 ballroom with 3 C20 French windows; hipped slate roof. INTERIOR: ballroom with C20 egg-and-dart frieze. Boarded C20 staircase. Cellar of 5 bays divided longitudinally by square brick piers, each carrying a groin vault of shaped clunch blocks. Lamp niches to side walls, some provided with smoke flues. Scratched date: 16 July 1765.
Listing NGR: TF8233508836
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460639
- 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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