How Hall and Forecourt Court Garden Walls to South

HOW HALL AND FORECOURT COURT GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1306057
Date first listed:
25-Sept-1951
List Entry Name:
How Hall and Forecourt Court Garden Walls to South
Statutory Address:
HOW HALL AND FORECOURT COURT GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH, THE GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1306057
Date first listed:
25-Sept-1951
List Entry Name:
How Hall and Forecourt Court Garden Walls to South
Statutory Address 1:
HOW HALL AND FORECOURT COURT GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH, THE GREEN

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
HOW HALL AND FORECOURT COURT GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH, THE GREEN

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
South Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Howe
National Grid Reference:
TM 27036 99666

Details

TM 29 NE HOWE THE GREEN

2/25 How Hall and forcourt 25.9.51 court garden walls to south. GV II

House. Early C17, with later C17 wing to rear. Brick-clad timber frame, brick in English bond. Pantile and tile roofs. 3-cell cross passage-type plan to south, later wing at right angles to rear, giving T-shaped plan. Facade (to south) in mid-C18 brick of 4 bays, 2 storeys. Off-centre C20 door with semicircular brick arch over, blocked fanlight; flnaked by C20 canted bays; to left a 3-light C19 casement with transom under segmental arch. 3 3-light C18 casements to first floor with timber lintels; fourth, dummy, window to left hand end. Kneelered parapet gables. Off-centre axial stack and eastern gable end stack. Garden to south of facade enclosed by wall in English bond brick, clm high. North wing of house in C17 brick. To west an oak chamfered mullion window with fanlight of original kitchen door to its north; first floor C20 casement and blocked opening. to east one C18 casement with evidence of larger opening to left; one window with timber lintel now obscured by outshut. 2 long windows now with leaded case- ments to upper floor; small blocked stair light. Parapet gables with re- used stone kneelers, that to east with angel bearing shield. Gable end stack. 2 blocked attic lights to gable. C20 lean-to and extension not of special interest. Interior. Remains of timber framed staircase outshut incorporated into rear wing. Ovolo moulded beams. Wall posts and tie beams of C17 timber frame at first floor in south wing. Lintel of upper window in east face of rear wing bears mortice for 10 light mullioned window. Butt purlin roof, restored in C20 with remains of queen-post construction.

Listing NGR: TM2703699666

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Legacy System number:
227370
Legacy System:
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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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