Holly House

HOLLY HOUSE, WHIMPWELL STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1373395
Date first listed:
11-May-1987
List Entry Name:
Holly House
Statutory Address:
HOLLY HOUSE, WHIMPWELL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1373395
Date first listed:
11-May-1987
List Entry Name:
Holly House
Statutory Address 1:
HOLLY HOUSE, WHIMPWELL STREET

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:
HOLLY HOUSE, WHIMPWELL STREET

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
North Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Happisburgh
National Grid Reference:
TG 38537 29648

Details

HAPPISBURGH WHIMPWELL STREET TG 32 NE (west side) 7/52 Holly House - II

Farmhouse. Mid C17, restored late C20. Brick with thatched roof. Lobby entrance plan. One storey and dormer attic. 2 storey gabled porch left of centre : C20 half glazed door under segmental arch with brick rustication to either side; moulded platband below C20 casement to first floor : gable head on generously proportioned kneelers. One C20 casement to left and right of porch and 2 similar casements in sloping dormers above. Gabled roof. Ridge stack over porch rebuilt. Western gable head rendered, eastern gable with platband and burnt headers. Rear obscured by C18 2 storey outshut of brick and slate roof. Additional C20 flat roofed porch and all fenestration C20.

Listing NGR: TG3853729648

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
224267
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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