Elder Farmhouse
ELDER FARMHOUSE, ELDER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342400
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Elder Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ELDER FARMHOUSE, ELDER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342400
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Elder Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELDER FARMHOUSE, ELDER LANE
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:
- ELDER FARMHOUSE, ELDER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Grimston
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 72291 21390
Details
GRIMSTON ELDER LANE TF 72 SW 2/31 Elder Farm House II Farmhouse, c.1600 with additions. Wing dated 1648, carstone and brick stone dressings, pantile roof with gable parapets. L shaped. 3 bays 2 storeys. Principal facade to south: rendered with rendered platband, central classical doorway having stone pilasters; 2 3-light casements to ground floor, 3 2-light casements to first floor; end internal stacks, shaft to west rebuilt; brick lean-to to west with bullseye. Return to east of galletted carstone rubble, platband with dentil courses above and below. North facade: carstone and brick colourwashed, platband continued from east return, limestone quoins to east; chimney bay to east; forward wing of 1½ storeys and 2 bays to third bay; ground floor with tripartite sash to bay 1, 6 panelled door canopy to bay 2 with canopy. First floor with inscribed sash to chimney bay, flush sash with glazing bars to bay 1, flush sash with glazing bars and semi-circular head to bay 2. Forward wing to bay 3 of carstone with some clunch brick dressings, east return of varied colourwashed materials, inserted window; north gable of galletted carstone rubble, inserted attic window, stone dated 1644 at apex; west return with 2-light casement to first floor one leaded, one with glazing bars. Interior: central cell with stone floor, open string stair with wreathed hand rail, with ovolo moulded bar-stopped cross beams. East and central bays with bar-stopped cross beam, those to ground and first floor of east bay with ovolo mouldings.
Listing NGR: TF7229121390
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 221963
- 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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