The Shirehall
THE SHIREHALL, 1-16, BEECH CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269667
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Shirehall
- Statutory Address:
- THE SHIREHALL, 1-16, BEECH CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269667
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Shirehall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SHIREHALL, 1-16, BEECH 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.
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:
- THE SHIREHALL, 1-16, BEECH 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 82128 08644
Details
SWAFFHAM
TF8208 BEECH CLOSE 809-1/8/101 (North side) 17/01/73 Nos 1-16 (Consecutive) The Shirehall (Formerly Listed as: WHITE CROSS ROAD Shire Hall (Norfolk County Council))
II
Shire hall, now 7 flats. 1839, converted 1989-90. By John Brown. Stuccoed brick with gault-brick lower attachments. Slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3-bay entrance in east gable: full-height recessed entrance bay flanked by arched niches right and left, and two 3/6 unhorned sashes to first floor, all with architraves. 4 pilasters with capitals separate the bays. Glazed doors of 1990 within recessed entrance bay. Pediment with block mutules and arms of Norfolk County Council. Hipped roof. 2 stacks on wall plane to north and south returns. Returns with single-storey extensions of 5- by one-window range, fitted with 6/6 unhorned sashes under gauged skewback arches. Hipped roofs. First floor of main block has returns lit through five 6/6 arched and unhorned sashes. INTERIOR: floored and altered. C20 staircase inserted.
Listing NGR: TF8212808644
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460560
- 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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