CAWSTON COLLEGE

CAWSTON COLLEGE, AYLSHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390561
Date first listed:: 18-Aug-2003
List Entry Name:: CAWSTON COLLEGE
Statutory Address:: CAWSTON COLLEGE, AYLSHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390561
Date first listed:: 18-Aug-2003
List Entry Name:: CAWSTON COLLEGE
Statutory Address 1:: CAWSTON COLLEGE, AYLSHAM 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:: CAWSTON COLLEGE, AYLSHAM ROAD

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: Broadland (District Authority)
Parish:: Cawston
National Grid Reference:: TG1637524589

Details

39/0/10005 18-AUG-03

CAWSTON AYLSHAM ROAD CAWSTON COLLEGE

II

Country House. 1896 by Sir Ernest George and Alfred Yeates for George Cawston. Converted to public school 1964. Red brick with stone dressings; tile roofs with stone coped gables with finials. Brick ornamental ridge and side stacks with double, triple and quadruple flues. Restrained Tudor style with stone mullioned windows throughout. PLAN: U-plan: principal south block with two north service wings. Mainly 2 storeys. EXTERIOR: Entrance front is a carefully designed long low asymmetrical composition of 4 3-light windows to first floor with projecting stack to left, 2-storey square bay to right and a large projecting gabled porch to far right with a stack and a facing gable on the end. Further windows to ground floor with high plinth and above them a string course. Entrance in porch has ornamental door case and pedimented tablet over. Left gable end has further windows and, on the other side of the court to rear, another wing completes the U-plan. The south front is also of 2 storeys; 6-window range. Nearly symmetrical, with 2 full-height polygonal bay windows. Tall plinth of chequered brick and flint with stone set-off. Moulded stone string course at first floor and a moulded stone cornice below the plain parapet. Door to centre right with moulded stone door case. Ground-floor windows with transoms, including to the canted bays, set in stone architraves. First-floor windows without transoms. Later extension to far right in front of further wing and further extension beyond. INTERIOR: not inspected. 2002 sale particulars mention heavily beamed and low relief plaster ceilings. This is a very finely detailed country house by a leading architectural practice of the day.

SOURCES: Building News: 1 May 1896, 15 May 1895 (with a plan and illustrations) The Architect: 1 May 1896 The Builder: 6 June 1896, p.487 Academy Architecture: 1896, in both volumes Grainger, H.J., The Architecture of Sir Ernest George and his Partners, c. 1860-1922', Ph.D. Thesis, University of Leeds, 1985 Gray, A. Stuart, Edwardian Architecture: a Biographical Dictionary, London, 1985 Pevsner, N & Wilson, B, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-east, Penguin Books, London, 1997

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Legacy System number:: 490504
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.