OLD SMITHY HOUSE

OLD SMITHY HOUSE, THE STREET, LYNG, NORFOLK, NR9 5AL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1306681
Date first listed:: 05-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: OLD SMITHY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: OLD SMITHY HOUSE, THE STREET, LYNG, NORFOLK, NR9 5AL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1306681
Date first listed:: 05-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: OLD SMITHY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: OLD SMITHY HOUSE, THE STREET, LYNG, NORFOLK, NR9 5AL

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: OLD SMITHY HOUSE, THE STREET, LYNG, NORFOLK, NR9 5AL

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: Breckland (District Authority)
Parish:: Lyng
National Grid Reference:: TG0686417817

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/01/2012

TG 01 NE 4/34

LYNG THE STREET (north-east side) Old Smithy House

(Formerly listed as Old Smithy Cottage, The Common)

II

Former blacksmith's cottage. Late C18. Colourwashed brick with pantile roofs. Cottage with single storey workshop to side. 2 storeys. Symmetrical facade of 4 windows and a central doorway bordered by rusticated giant pilasters. Original 2-light windows with metal casements. Ground floor windows with transoms and skewback arches. Plain platband and a moulded brick cornice. Panelled front door with corner paterae to door case. Later porch with a zinc tent roof, ball finial and fretted eaves detail supported on chamfered posts. Single gable-end stack. Workshop extension not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TG0686417817

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 220740
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.