Strattons Hotel

STRATTONS HOTEL, 4, ASH CLOSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1269666
Date first listed:
17-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:
Strattons Hotel
Statutory Address:
STRATTONS HOTEL, 4, ASH CLOSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1269666
Date first listed:
17-Jan-1973
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Jul-1996
List Entry Name:
Strattons Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
STRATTONS HOTEL, 4, ASH CLOSE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
STRATTONS HOTEL, 4, ASH CLOSE

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 81880 09123

Details

SWAFFHAM

TF8109 ASH CLOSE 809-1/5/1 (North side (off)) 17/01/73 No.4 Stratton's Hotel (Formerly Listed as: ASH CLOSE No.4 The Farmhouse)

II

House. Mid C18 with c1890 house attached at east end. Original block of red brick and pantiled roof (slate to rear). Addition to east of red brick under machine-tiled roof. EXTERIOR: single storey and dormer attic on basement. 5-window range. Central bay projects under a gable. 4-, 2- and 3-light C20 basement windows. Central late C20 double-leaf doors flanked by one small late C20 window either side, reached by flight of stone steps to right and left with square-section wrought-iron railings. Steps have central roundel with keyblocks lighting basement. Diocletian window in gable head, with keyblocks, beneath a painted sundial face. Main first floor with an outer Venetian window either side, fitted with 1/1 unhorned sashes and 2 further 1/1 simple sashes. Gabled roof. 2 gabled dormers fitted with 1/1 unhorned sashes. Internal gable-end stacks west and east. 2-storey addition to east; irregular 4-window range. C20 door to left; three 1/1 horned sashes to right and 4 further 1/1 horned sashes to first floor. Hipped roof with gable over centre of facade containing a Diocletian window. Stacks on side slopes. INTERIOR: C18 range with C18 cornices to principal rooms and C19 fireplaces. C19 staircase with bobbin-turned balusters and ramped handrail. C19 range with splat balusters to closed-string staircase, panelled newels with ball finials.



Listing NGR: TF8188009123

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Legacy System number:
460559
Legacy System:
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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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