HIGH HOUSE STABLE COURT AND CURTAIN WALL ATTACHED AT EAST OF HIGH HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1342411
Date first listed:: 13-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: HIGH HOUSE STABLE COURT AND CURTAIN WALL ATTACHED AT EAST OF HIGH HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HIGH HOUSE STABLE COURT AND CURTAIN WALL ATTACHED AT EAST OF HIGH HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1342411
Date first listed:: 13-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: HIGH HOUSE STABLE COURT AND CURTAIN WALL ATTACHED AT EAST OF HIGH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HIGH HOUSE STABLE COURT AND CURTAIN WALL ATTACHED AT EAST OF HIGH HOUSE

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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HIGH HOUSE STABLE COURT AND CURTAIN WALL ATTACHED AT EAST OF HIGH HOUSE

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:: West Acre
National Grid Reference:: TF 79346 18152

Details

WEST ACRE HIGH HOUSE TF 71 NE 5/53 Stable court and curtain wall attached at east of High House.

G.V. I

Stable court and curtain wall attached to east of High House (q.v.). C.1829 by W.J. Donthorn, architect, for Anthony Hamond. Holkham gault brick facades of high quality detail, red brick interior to court, slated roofs. Rectangular single storey court with 4 2-storey flat roofed angle towers, screen wall to west connecting with High House. Highly abstract Greek Revival style with primitivist Soanic references. Tripartite east range has central rubbed brick arched barrel vaulted carriage entrance. Projecting wooden cornice and pediment with central rubbed brick arch oculus. Slightly recessed wings continue the eaves level string course and parapet. South front has Soanic porch with 2 central and 2 angle Greek Doric antae, entablature, 2 projecting cornices, attic with round headed finials. Antae repeated in interior of porch. Projecting bay on north side with slit windows. Each angle has 2 storey towers, at south-east grooms' dormitory, at south-west Norman servants', forth-west brewery, north-east hay loft. Ground floor has recessed centre with 3 windows divided by brick antae supporting frieze and entablature on same line as that of lateral,ranges. First floor has single narrow pilastered opening. Slightly projecting angle antae have upper level slit with orthodox position above of capital omitted. Stucco cornice, frieze and projecting wooden eaves, broken forward over angles, recessed in centre. Flat roofs. See Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects C-F (1972) pp.83-89 R. O'Donnell "W,J. Donthorn (1799-1859) : Architecture with great hardness and decision in the edges" Archaeological History (JSAH GB) xxi, (1978) pp. 83-94.

Listing NGR: TF7934618152

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 221921
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Architectural History' in Architectural History, , Vol. 21, (1978), 83 94
'Catalogue of the Drawings Collection' in Catalogue of the Drawings Collection, (1972), 83 89

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.