Priory Farmhouse
PRIORY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1342498
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH STREET
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2001-10-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/05331/28
- Rights:
- © Mr Colin Johnston. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1342498
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Litcham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 88816 17444
Details
TF 8817 LITCHAM CHURCH STREET (west side)
7/21 Priory Farmhouse 4.12.51 I - Former chapel and hermitage converted into farmhouse, now dwelling. Early C14 with important C17 additions. Flint with stone and clunch dressings to Medieval part. Timber frame mainly replaced with brick and a flint and brick gable-end to early C17 side extension. Brick later C17 service and stair rear extensions. Later brick lean-tos. Black pantiled roofs. 2 storeys with attics. Flint gable wall with former large arched east window. Angle buttresses with niches with trefoil heads. C17 gable with pair of blocked windows, tumbling-in, moulded brick gable corbels and inserted stack. South facade with 6 C19 3-light casement windows. Arched central window with Y-tracery. C14 front door with busily moulded arch of filletted rolls and undercut hollow rolls on to plain-chamfered jambs. 2 C18 dormers with moulded pediments and metal casements with leaded glazing. C17 west gable-end with 2 blocked fragmentary ovolo-moulded 2-light mullion windows. 2 later C17 extensions with curvilinear gables and windows (mainly blocked) with moulded brick eared architraves. Semicircular headed doorway with projecting imposts and key. INTERIOR. 2 crown post trusses over former chapel, one octa- gonal with moulded capital and base and 4-way bracing. Corresponding tie cambered and hollow-chamfered with former notched arch braces and wall posts. Roll-moulded wall plate. 4 queen post trusses (2 survive) to early C17 extension. One C16 bridging joist with broad chamfers and broach stops. C17 beams with barred and ogee stops. Part of jettied timber frame survives on north side. Very fine staircase with tapered balusters and newel knops. Stone dressed western fireplaces. Surviving inventory of Mathew Halcott 1674.
Listing NGR: TF8881617444
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220422
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 12-Jul-2026 at 08:27:34.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.