The Dower House
THE DOWER HOUSE, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305326
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Dower House
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOWER HOUSE, THE GREEN
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05535/29
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305326
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Dower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DOWER HOUSE, THE GREEN
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 DOWER HOUSE, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Broadland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Heydon
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 11344 27303
Details
TG 12 NW HEYDON THE GREEN
3/48 The Dower House
GV II
House. C17, remodelled and extended in mid C19. Red brick with diaper work in east gable. Steeply-pitched roofs of corrugated clay tiles. Two storeys, double-pile plan. Elevation to Green of three bays - 2, 3 and 4-light windows with ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms in renewed chamfered and stuccoed reveals. First floor windows have glazing bars. Central doorway with 4- centred stuccoed arch and doorcase with Doric pilasters and dentilled cornice. Brick-eaves corbel-table. Stepped east and west gables with moulded eaves corbels, internal chimney stacks with twin diagonally-set shafts. Low lean- to with stepped parapet at west gable. C19 range to south forming double pile: stepped east and west gables, ovolo-moulded mullion and transom windows. Two taller bays to south with shaped gables, moulded brick drip moulds to window heads. Internal gable stacks with twin diagonally-set shafts, axial stack off-centre to west. Eaves corbel table.
Listing NGR: TG1134427303
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 228707
- 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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