Castell Farmhouse

CASTELL FARMHOUSE, BECCLES ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1373190
Date first listed:
25-Sept-1951
List Entry Name:
Castell Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
CASTELL FARMHOUSE, BECCLES ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1373190
Date first listed:
25-Sept-1951
List Entry Name:
Castell Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
CASTELL FARMHOUSE, BECCLES 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.

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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:
CASTELL FARMHOUSE, BECCLES ROAD

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
South Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Raveningham
National Grid Reference:
TM 40548 95573

Details

RAVENINGHAM BECCLES ROAD TM 49 NW 7/121 Castell Farmhouse 25-9-51 - II

Farmhouse, C16 and later, restored mid C20. Timber framed with red brick gables and additions; steeply pitched pantiled roof. Two storeys and attics, L-shaped plan. Main facade to south-east; three widely spaced windows set in exposed timber frame with colourwashed infill : 4-light casements with Transoms. Polygonal brick angle shafts at gables. Lower storey partly under- built in brickwork. Doorway off-centre to right with rectangular fanlight over battened door. Jettied first floor structure. First floor casements of 5 lights (centre) and 3 lights. Tension braces to studs. Off-centre axial chimney stack with linked lozenge-shaped shafts; one shaft to north with decorative brickwork on moulded base. South gable with tumbling at base and internal chimney stack with lozenge-shaped shafts. Attic casement with glazing bars in gable. North gable has polygonal angle shafts and a large blocked ground floor window with a 6-light mullion and transom frame set in a chamfered reveal with stuccoed ashlaring. Brickwork of gable in English bond with diaper pattering. Red brick rear wing with segmental headed casements and 2-light attic dormer on south-west. Catslide lean-to's in north west angle and flat roofed tile-hung projection. Interior has bridging and tie beams with large chamfers and broach stops; first floor joists with stepped run-out chamfers.

Listing NGR: TM4054895573

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
227123
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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