Shirley House
SHIRLEY HOUSE, 23, LONDON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269643
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Shirley House
- Statutory Address:
- SHIRLEY HOUSE, 23, LONDON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269643
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Shirley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHIRLEY HOUSE, 23, LONDON 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:
- SHIRLEY HOUSE, 23, LONDON HOUSE
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 82033 08738
Details
SWAFFHAM
TF8208 LONDON STREET 809-1/9/106 (East side) 10/01/51 No.23 Shirley House
GV II
House, now club. c1770, refronted late C20. Red brick; slate front roof, pantile rear roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys in 5-window range, the centre 3 window bays broken forward under a pediment. Central 6-panelled door, the centre 2 panels glazed. Timber doorcase of engaged Doric columns with block entablatures and an open pediment. 5-vaned fanlight. Fenestration throughout of 2/2 horned sashes under gauged skewback arches, except for 2 ground-floor left-hand 1/2 sashes. Modillion eaves cornice. Blind oculus in original pediment. Pitched roof rising to a central flat, formerly gabled, with internal gable end stacks. A brick front was added to that existing late C20, but the central pediment section remains. Mostly 2/2 sashes to rear under gauged brick lintels. INTERIOR: altered: ground-floor south rooms opened into continuous space for bar area. Stick-baluster staircase with ramped and wreathed handrail. 6-panel doors and C18 fireplace.
Listing NGR: TF8203308738
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460577
- 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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