The Ostrich Inn
THE OSTRICH INN, FAKENHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343672
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Ostrich Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE OSTRICH INN, FAKENHAM ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04148/26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343672
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Ostrich Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OSTRICH INN, FAKENHAM ROAD
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:
- THE OSTRICH INN, FAKENHAM ROAD
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:
- South Creake
- National Grid Reference:
- TF8627335559
Details
The following items shall be added:-
TF 83 NE
2/72
SOUTH CREAKE
FAKEHAM ROAD
The Ostrich Inn
GV
II
Public house. Circa early C19 with later C19 and C20 alterations. Flint rubble with brick dressings and Flemish bond brick front, the front and end wall white-washed. Pantile roof with brick caped gable ends and brick corbelled eaves. Brick stack at left gabled end.
Plan: 2-room plan 2-storey main building to left (north west) with a central entrance and single storey service wing at the rear of the left hand room. At the right end a coeval 2-room plan single storey range, also with a central entrance. Later in the C19 the rear wing was extended on its inner right hand side and a single storey outshut was built at the backs of the front range. In the late C20 the eaves at the rear of the right hand range were raised to increase the accommodation.
Exterior: 2 storey symmetrical 2-window main building to left with a central panelled door with a gabled wooden canopy on shaped brackets; 16-pane sashes, those on the ground floor are original but first floor sashes replaced with facsimilies. To the right the single storey symmetrical 2-window range with a C20 door at centre and flanking 16-pane sashes, that on the left is original and the right hand sash is a later facsimile. All the windows have C20 louvred shutters. At the rear a C19 2-light first floor casement with glazing bars, a brick single storey outshut and a single storey gable-ended wing to right. The single storey to left has raised eaves.
Interior: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TF8627335559
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 359847
- 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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