The Long House (1 and 2 Long House Yard)
THE LONG HOUSE (1 AND 2 LONG HOUSE YARD), HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172597
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Long House (1 and 2 Long House Yard)
- Statutory Address:
- THE LONG HOUSE (1 AND 2 LONG HOUSE YARD), HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172597
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Long House (1 and 2 Long House Yard)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LONG HOUSE (1 AND 2 LONG HOUSE YARD), HIGH 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 LONG HOUSE (1 AND 2 LONG HOUSE YARD), HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cley Next the Sea
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 04588 44026
Details
TG 0444 CLEY NEXT THE SEA HIGH STREET (south-east side)
8/40 The Long House (1 & 2 Long House Yard)
II
House, now two dwellings, late C15, rendered and colourwashed, pantiles. 4 bays, 1½ storeys. Passage to rear between bays 3 and 4, internal gable end stacks, central axial stack, gable parapets. Varied casements to ground floor, under segmental heads to bays 1 and 4, small horizontal sliding sash and casement to bay 2, 4 flush sashes of 3 x 3 panes to first floor. Left wall of passage of regular coursed flint and brick mosaic, right wall rendered, massive moulded bridging beam across passage. Left gable of coursed flint. Rear: variety of coursed flint with some brick and flint mosaic, left hand side part rendered, varied fenestration, segmental brick arch to passage. 2 storeyed 3 bay wing of coursed flint with brick dressings to rear of first bay, horizontal sliding flush sashes with glazing bars, internal bread oven; 2 storeyed late C18 extension in red brick with flush sashes and glazing bars to rear of 4th bay. Interior: dwellings to left and right of passageway, entrances from rear. Fragment of wall painting c.1500 against rear east gable wall depicting unicorn and mirror, painting now enclosed by brick wall. Edwin Rose and Graham Pooley: A Medieval Wall Painting from Cley next the Sea, Norfolk Archaeological Journal XXXVII 1978, pp115-6.
Listing NGR: TG0458844026
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 224587
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Norfolk Archaeology in Norfolk Archaeology, Vol. 37, (1978), 115-6
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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