Windetts Farm Cottages

WINDETTS FARM COTTAGES, 3 AND 4, SEETHING ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1305998
Date first listed:
18-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:
Windetts Farm Cottages
Statutory Address:
WINDETTS FARM COTTAGES, 3 AND 4, SEETHING ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1305998
Date first listed:
18-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:
Windetts Farm Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
WINDETTS FARM COTTAGES, 3 AND 4, SEETHING 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.

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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:
WINDETTS FARM COTTAGES, 3 AND 4, SEETHING ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Norfolk
District:
South Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Kirstead
National Grid Reference:
TM 30584 97315

Details

TM 39 NW KIRKSTEAD SEETHING ROAD (west side) 3/91 Windett's Farm Cottages Nos 3 and 4

GV II

Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Early C17, altered in early C19 and divided into 2 cottages in early C20. English bond red brick ground storey, gable ends and stair turret; C19 Flemish bond red brick replaces timber frame to first floor; timber-framed right gable end with English bond brick to ground storey; corbelled kneelers to copings of gabled clay pantile roof; C17 brick ridge stack; truncated brick stack to left, with octagonal flues removed. 3-unit lobby-entrance plan. 2 storeys and attic; asymmetrical 4-window range with square lean-to stair turret projecting to left of centre. C20 doors and windows, except 2 late Cl9 first-floor casements, earlier C19 one-light window to left of centre, blocked chamfered window to left side of stair turret and blocked original doorway to right of centre. Late C19/early C20 gabled porch to left. Interior: central room has cyma-stopped chamfered beam and large unchamfered joists. Chamfered arched doorframe with ogee stops to former service room on right. Wooden newel staircase to turret, with top section of newel removed and chinoiserie balustrade inserted. First floor has gunstack jowled posts, some with arch braces surviving, to cyma-stopped chamfered tie beams. 5-bay clasped-purlin roof with diminished principals and collars; intermediate collars have birdmouth joists to purlins; curved windbraces;'trimmer to rear rafters denoting position of former dormer; right-hand gable end has exposed close studding and a 5-light window with chamfered mullions, not rebated for glass; timber-framed screen to left.

Listing NGR: TM3058497315

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Legacy System number:
227384
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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