THE BATH HOUSE

THE BATH HOUSE, MELTON CONSTABLE PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1373811
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:: THE BATH HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE BATH HOUSE, MELTON CONSTABLE PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1373811
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:: THE BATH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE BATH HOUSE, MELTON CONSTABLE PARK

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE BATH HOUSE, MELTON CONSTABLE PARK

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: North Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Melton Constable
National Grid Reference:: TG 02805 31945

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/12/2012

TG 03 SW 3/60

MELTON CONSTABLE MELTON CONSTABLE PARK The Bath House.

II*

Former bath house, now a cottage. Probably 1764, by Lancelot Brown for Sir Edward Astley. Stuccoed brick, slated roofs. Central 3 storey 3 sided bowed centre, flanking 2-storey single bays, 2 bay returns. Castellated Gothick. Ground floor and first floor 5 Gothick switch tracery arched headed sash windows with glazing bars. Returns with 2 ground and first floor switch tracery sashes. Stucco quoins and battlements. Blank windows with painted glazing bars to second floor of central bow with conical slated roof with weather vane behind. Battlemented parapet, central sun-dial. Sun-dial first floor of south return. 2 storey 2-bay brick addition to south, red brick but with switch tracery Gothick sashes and brick battlements. Brick outshut rear. Ground floor former bathroom with wooden cornice and 6 panelled doors with architraves. Perhaps by "Capability" Brown c.1764-1709 : see Dorothy Stroud, Capability Brown (2nd ed 1975) pp112, 233.

Listing NGR: TG0280531945

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

Legacy System number:: 223972
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Stroud, D, Capability Brown, (1975), 112 233
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 29 Norfolk,

Legal

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