Meadow Cottage

MEADOW COTTAGE, CHURCH MEADOW LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1373075
Date first listed:
23-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Meadow Cottage
Statutory Address:
MEADOW COTTAGE, CHURCH MEADOW LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1373075
Date first listed:
23-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Meadow Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
MEADOW COTTAGE, CHURCH MEADOW 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:
MEADOW COTTAGE, CHURCH MEADOW LANE

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
South Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Alpington
National Grid Reference:
TG 29640 01462

Details

TG 20 SE ALPINGTON CHURCH MEADOW LANE

1/7 Meadow Cottage

- II

House. Early 17th century. Timber frame, rendered and colourwashed. Partly refaced and underbuilt in brickwork. Rear elevation partly weatherboarded. Steeply pitched pantile roof. Two storeys and attics, lobby entrance plan. Four window range, widely spaced: 2,3 and 4 light 20th century casements with leaded glazing. Off-centre entrance with moulded architrave and plain canopy on brackets. Plain tiled offset in south wall at first floor level. Two gabled dormers with 2-light casements. Gables partly weatherboarded. One-storey gabled wing to north with 20th century external gable stack. Interior contains pair of service doorways into western end (one doorway now blocked), beams with ogee and stepped chamfer stops. Fireplaces with hollow chamfered and quadrant moulded brick four centre arches. 20th century stair replaces original winding stair in lobby; original stair remains from first floor to attic. Butt-purlin roof, east end possibly rebuilt in mid 18th century.

Listing NGR: TG2964001462

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
226714
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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