Happisburgh Manor including two summerhouses
Happisburgh Manor, The Street, Happisburgh, NR12 0AB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1306318
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Happisburgh Manor including two summerhouses
- Statutory Address:
- Happisburgh Manor, The Street, Happisburgh, NR12 0AB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1306318
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Happisburgh Manor including two summerhouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- Happisburgh Manor, The Street, Happisburgh, NR12 0AB
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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.
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:
- Happisburgh Manor, The Street, Happisburgh, NR12 0AB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Happisburgh
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 38178 30990
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/02/2020
TG 33 SE
5/47
HAPPISBURGH
THE STREET (east side)
Happisburgh Manor including two summerhouses
[Formerly listed as St Mary's including two summerhouses, WHIMPELL STREET (east side)]
11.3.85
GV
II*
House, later restaurant and Country Club. 1900 by Detmar Blow for the Cators, a local Roman Catholic family. Vernacular Domestic Revival style. Pebble flint (Quaternary) and Chert with brick and tile dressings and thatched roofs. Butterfly or X plan. Two storeys and attics. Entrance front with central single storey gabled porch: oak door under lintel of Roman tiles with flint chequerwork and brick. Five-light leaded casements either side and two first floor dormers under eyebrow thatching. These flank central two storey gabled dormer with brick diaper. At north-west and south-west are gabled wings with single four-light ground floor, three-light first floor and three-light attic floor casements. Brick quoins, attic floor platband and tumbling. Purlin irons with lettering: AVE MARIA STELLA MARIS on all gables. Returns of both south wings on entrance front pierced by one casement on ground floors and two to first floors. Gabled roofs. Two dormers below eyebrow thatching. Forest of romantically placed stacks.
Interior. Central panelled room. Fireplace decorated with coat of arms, date 1900 and motto. Panelled room also in south-west wing. Stone stairs to south. Between south wings a quadrant flint and brick wall. Between north wings a quadrant single storey service block with brick stack. At north-east and south-east corners two flint and brick summerhouses with hipped roofs attached to encircling wall and linked to house.
St Marys is said to be the first "fully-worked" example of the four-wing butterfly plan house and influenced architects such as Prior and Lutyens.
Listing NGR: TG3817830990
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 224262
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 19 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
Other
Holder, R.J., Victorian Society correspondence
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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