Garden Walls Including Owl House at Home Farm, Morton Hall Estate
GARDEN WALLS INCLUDING OWL HOUSE AT HOME FARM, MORTON HALL ESTATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390577
- Date first listed:
- 18-Aug-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Walls Including Owl House at Home Farm, Morton Hall Estate
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN WALLS INCLUDING OWL HOUSE AT HOME FARM, MORTON HALL ESTATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390577
- Date first listed:
- 18-Aug-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Walls Including Owl House at Home Farm, Morton Hall Estate
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN WALLS INCLUDING OWL HOUSE AT HOME FARM, MORTON HALL ESTATE
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:
- GARDEN WALLS INCLUDING OWL HOUSE AT HOME FARM, MORTON HALL ESTATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Broadland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Morton on the Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- TG1244115704
Details
376/0/10001
18-AUG-03
MORTON ON THE HILL
GARDEN WALLS INCLUDING OWL HOUSE AT HOME FARM, MORTON HALL ESTATE
II
Garden walls and owl house. c. 1830. Red brick laid in Flemish bond.
PLAN: 2 lengths of wall remain meeting at a corner where there is an owl house.
EXTERIOR: tall south and west walls with flat stone capping, meeting at a right angle. Burnt headers used randomly. The south wall with a doorway under a semi-circular head. The outside face of both walls with brick piers at intervals.
At the corner of the walls is a circular brick owl house carried on a sandstone corbel to the inner angle and brick corbelling to the outer angle. 2 storeys terminating in flat brick coping. 2 square openings face north, each formerly leading to a chamber.
INTERIOR: both stages with brick vanes acting as roosts, otherwise plain.
The building has been identified as a purpose-built owl house, and an otherwise unknown building type. Owl houses are known to have been built on farms, but the favoured formula was to incorporate them in gable ends of barns, or even just to have an owl hole by which the birds could enter and exit, the purpose being control of vermin. This extremely unusual two-stage structure must be presumed to have been rare even when built.
Information from Norfolk Archaeological Unit.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490525
- 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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