The White House
THE WHITE HOUSE, 42, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380287
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- The White House
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHITE HOUSE, 42, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380287
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- The White House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHITE HOUSE, 42, THE 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHITE HOUSE, 42, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Lopham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 03568 83016
Details
TM 08 SW
165/6/10023
NORTH LOPHAM
THE STREET
42
The White House
10-MAY-00
GV II
House. Early C17 with major additions of C18 and mid C19. Rendered timber frame, colour-washed brick and pantile roofs.
PLAN: C17 lobby entrance with off-centre axial stack; late C17 rear addition to services; C18 extension to north end of front creating an L plan; C19 pile added to rear beneath a catslide roof.
EXTERIOR: east front of 2 storeys with attics; 2-window range. Mid C19 panelled door opposite stack with a simple doorcase. Symmetrical arrangement of 4 tripartite sash windows, 2 to each floor, with 1/1:2/2:1/1 glazing bars.
Front facing gable-end of C18 extension of 3-light casement windows to attic and first floor and French windows to ground incorporated in the blocking of a former wide opening. Irregular fenestration to rear with from left to right ground floor: mid C20 2-light metal-framed window, C19 2-light casement with glazing bars, late C20 glass door with glazing bars, early C19 3-light casement window with horizontal glazing bars. First floor: mid C19 sash with vertical glazing bars, single light casement with leaded glazing, double sash with vertical glazing bars and tripartite sash. Curious moulded brick cornice of concave oval panels with a bead-and-reel lower border. Stack with 3 polygonal shafts.
INTERIOR: stack with fine brick arched chimneypiece to parlour. Original stair to west side of stack. Spinal bridging joists to hall and parlour with closely spaced common joists. First floor with some C17 panelling. Roof structure obscured but visible elements suggest a clasped purlin with wind bracing. Altered at junction with C18 extension.
Listing NGR: TM0356883016
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480185
- 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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