The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, 4, BRIDEWELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272665
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 4, BRIDEWELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272665
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, 4, BRIDEWELL STREET
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 MANOR HOUSE, 4, BRIDEWELL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wymondham
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 11148 01464
Details
TF1101 WYMONDHAM BRIDEWELL STREET (south side) No 4, The Manor House 11/10002 GV II . House. Built for Richard Lyncolne 1616 after original destroyed in 1615 Wymondham fire. Altered 1864. Timber-framed. Plaintile roof to front, machine tile to rear. 2 storeys, partly on a plinth. Central stud and plank door with fumiture of 1616. Close studded exposed timbering with decorative plaster applied 1864. One canted bay right and left of door also of 1860s. Jettied first floor, the bressumer obscured by attached timber bearing latin legend. Two 3-light casements to first floor of 1860s. Gabled roof with rebuilt internal gable-end stack to east. Roughcast rear has a moulded wall plate and C20 fenestration. INTERIOR. Ground floor west room with a chamfered bridging beam terminating in jewelled tongue stops. East room has a sunk-quadrant moulded bridging beam with barred tongue stops. Wall plate runs north-south with inscription: "Richard Lyncolne A.D. 1616. Live well and die never, die well and live ever". Frame withjowled principal studs. Roof with 2 tiers of chamfered and tongue-stopped butt purlins, cambered collars, and, probably, curved windbracing under plaster.
Listing NGR: TG1114801464
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 448310
- 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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