Homestead
HOMESTEAD, WATTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271904
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Homestead
- Statutory Address:
- HOMESTEAD, WATTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271904
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Homestead
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOMESTEAD, WATTON 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:
- HOMESTEAD, WATTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stow Bedon and Breckles
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 94886 94012
Details
TL99SW STOW BEDON WATTON ROAD, Breckles Homestead 38/6/10002 II House. c1600 with later alterations. Pebbledashed and whitewashed timber frame with thatched hipped roof. Brick off-centre ridge stack. 2-unit plan. 2 storeys; 2-window range of 2-light casements to both storeys with small single light to centre ground floor. A further window in outshuts on either end, both with tile roofs and that to right with brick stack. Rear has further casements and doors and thatched outshut to rear of stack. INTERIOR: Frame largely obscured behind later linings. One jowled post visible with exposed tenon. Chamfered bridging beam to western room with ogee stops to stack end Chamfered transverse bridging beam to longer eastern room. Roofhas two part-closed queen post trusses forming the stack bay. Some lengths of purlin of triangular section surviving. One C18 truss with collar lap-jointed and nailed onto principal rafters. One truss with short principal rafters connected below the ridge with a collar. Crossed bracing, probably C18. A comparatively little altered house of the period.
Listing NGR: TL9488694012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468721
- 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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