Sparrow Green Farmhouse
SPARROW GREEN FARMHOUSE, SPARROW GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342575
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sparrow Green Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SPARROW GREEN FARMHOUSE, SPARROW GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342575
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sparrow Green Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPARROW GREEN FARMHOUSE, SPARROW GREEN
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:
- SPARROW GREEN FARMHOUSE, SPARROW GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gressenhall
- National Grid Reference:
- TF9496914715
Details
TF 91 SW
5/19
GRESSENHALL
SPARROW GREEN
Sparrow Green Farmhouse
- II
Former farmhouse. Probably late C16 with a late C17 brick facing. C20 alterations.
Timber frame faced with brick except for parts of side wing. Pantile roofs. Central porch and single forward-projecting side wing suggesting an intended E plan. 2 storeys with attic. Central 2-storey porch with rebuilt gable. Semicircular headed entrance contained within a rectangular opening with chamfered reveals. Part glazed semicircular headed panelled door. Sash window with glazing bars above. Chamfered reveals of original long mullion window still visible to sides. 4 symmetrically positioned late C20 4-light casement windows of discordant design. 2 fossilized skewback arches. Side wing with a returned crow-stepped brick gable-end with stack. Small ovolo-moulded 2-light mullion window in southern return of gable-end. Rendered timber frame to first floor of facade. 2 3-light late C20 windows, 2 doorways and one re-used 7-light mullion window. Small gabled dormer window. Rear gable-end with apparent tie and arched brace. One 5-light mullion window to rear of main block. Blind sloping dormer behind stack probably accommodating stair. Central axial stack to main block and front gable-end stack to side wing. Later lean-tos to rear.
Listing NGR: TF9496914715
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220766
- 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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