HIGH ASH FARMHOUSE

HIGH ASH FARMHOUSE, HIGH ASH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1373141
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: HIGH ASH FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: HIGH ASH FARMHOUSE, HIGH ASH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1373141
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: HIGH ASH FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HIGH ASH FARMHOUSE, HIGH ASH ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: HIGH ASH FARMHOUSE, HIGH ASH ROAD

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: South Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Ketteringham
National Grid Reference:: TG 14670 02161

Details

TG 10 SW KETTERINGHAM HIGH ASH ROAD

4/84 High Ash Farmhouse 2-10-51 II

Farmhouse, C16 with later additions. Timberframed, rendered and with brick casing, pantiles and plain tiles. L shaped; C16 front range of 4 cells and chimney bay; C19 2 bay rear wing to left; 2 storeys. North facade to road: rendered and colourwashed, pantiles, chimney bay between cells 1 and 2, axial stack with shaft rebuilt mid C19 with recessed semi-circular headed panels having keystone of 3 builds; datestone with initials ? E S and date now indecipherable; end internal stack to left with shaft, rebuilt C20 to match. Openings with narrow casement lights and trefoil leaf latch handles; those to bay 1 of 4-lights having ovolo moulded pine framed; C19 chamfered frames to rest of facade of 1, 4, 2 and 3 lights to chimney bay and cells 2-4. Rendering to cells 3-4 thicker offset from cell 2. Single storeyed lean-to across bays 3-4. Returns of brick in English bond, C17, recessed gables with crowstepped parapets. Right return with 2 bulls eyes having rubbed brick moulding; rubbed brick plaque with scrolled base and blank shield. Left return with base of broken flint and some limestone; gable with 2 blank bulls eyes, scrolled stone with W H (William Heveningham); eroded datestone above. Ground and first floor with 4-light openings having ovolo moulded frames in pine, rendered openings with quoined jambs, pediments and pulvinated friezes, casement latches as to north facade. Rear wing to left of left return; C19 in C17 style, possibly a rebuild of earlier wing. Flemish bond, English bond to plinth, plain tiles. 2 bays, 2 storeys. Bay 1 with openings as to left return of front range but first floor without pediment. Bay 2 with single storeyed porch to right with crowstepped gables; semi-circular headed rendered arch with quoined jambs, imposts and keystone; returns with leaded bulls eyes having rendered surrounds. Doorway with runout ¼ circle chamfer stops; pine door with 4 vertical panels; first floor with 2-light opening as to first bay. South return of wing with crowstepped gable; openings as to left return of front range but with ground floor casements reaching close to ground; gable with blank brick bulls eye. Rear of wing with external stack with C19 shaft as to main range chimney bay; integral stair turret within angle of front range and wing. Rear of main range: plain tiles; C20 brick facing to timberframe of cells 3-4; 1½ storeyed outshut to bays 1 and 2, C18, in brick with sawtooth cornice, pantiles. Interior: front range with complete timberframe; 3-tier roof with butt purlins (staggered to bay 1), no bay partitions to roof; enclosed stack to ground floor gable end bay 1, large fireplace to bay 2 chimney bay, stair to rear of chimney bay ground floor removed. Stair to middle light of bay 2 with C17 octagonal newel with run out chamfer stops; various chamfer stops to bridging beams of front range. Trusses of first floor gable ends with braces thinner than ties. Turned balusters to oak dogleg staircase in C19 stair turret. The beams to centres of bays 2-4 with jewel stops.

Listing NGR: TG1467002161

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Legacy System number:: 226968
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.