Primrose Farmhouse

PRIMROSE FARMHOUSE, PRIMROSE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1342536
Date first listed:
24-May-1993
List Entry Name:
Primrose Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
PRIMROSE FARMHOUSE, PRIMROSE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1342536
Date first listed:
24-May-1993
List Entry Name:
Primrose Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
PRIMROSE FARMHOUSE, PRIMROSE 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PRIMROSE FARMHOUSE, PRIMROSE LANE

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
Breckland (District Authority)
Parish:
South Lopham
National Grid Reference:
TM 04197 81585

Details

The following buildings shall be added to the list:-

TM 08 SW SOUTH LOPHAM PRIMROSE LANE

6/10004 Primrose Farmhouse

- II

Farmhouse. Circa early C17 with C19 alterations. Timber framed, faced in red brick at front, roughcast at rear, weatherboarded and brick gable end. Pantile roof with gabled ends. Brick axial and gable end stacks. Plan: 3-room plan with entrance lobby in front of axial stack which has back-to-back fireplaces heating centre and left rooms; the chamber above left room is jettied out at gable end. Smaller room at right end has gable-end stack but might have been originally unheated. Unheated outshut behind left end is possibly integral. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3- window SE front. C19 3-light casements, ground floor with transoms and cambered arches with keyblocks. Similar arch to doorway to left of centre with glazed and panelled door. SW gable end first floor jettied with remains of jetty brackets. At rear NW small casements; centre window of outshut is circa early C17 moulded mullion window possibly reused. Interior LH room has boxed-in cross-beam and C20 chimneypiece has chamfered cross-beam and C18 or C19 chimneypiece. Smaller room on right has chamfered axial beam and small fireplace with C20 range. Some wall-posts are exposed on ground floor and timber framing exposed in outshut.

Listing NGR: TM0419781585

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
220650
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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