Former Factory of Charles Burrell and Sons

FORMER FACTORY OF CHARLES BURRELL AND SONS, MINSTERGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207916
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1971
List Entry Name:
Former Factory of Charles Burrell and Sons
Statutory Address:
FORMER FACTORY OF CHARLES BURRELL AND SONS, MINSTERGATE
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Date:
2001-05-13
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207916
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1971
Date of most recent amendment:
01-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:
Former Factory of Charles Burrell and Sons
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER FACTORY OF CHARLES BURRELL AND SONS, MINSTERGATE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER FACTORY OF CHARLES BURRELL AND SONS, MINSTERGATE

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
Breckland (District Authority)
Parish:
Thetford
National Grid Reference:
TL8680383226

Details

TL8683
617-1/5/109

THETFORD
MINSTERGATE (North East side)
Former factory of Charles Burrell & Sons

(Formerly Listed as: MINSTERGATE (South West side) South-east block of factory of Charles Burrell & Sons)

10/03/71

GV II

Factory. Early C19. Flint with red brick dressings and a red brick facade. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys in 6 bays, extended to south-east with two 2-storey bays and 2 one-storey bays, the latter under a gabled pantiled roof. 6 windows each floor, those to the ground floor under segmental heads, arranged in 2 groups of 3. All boarded up. Extension has one bay of similar windows and the south-east bay has a pedestrian door to ground floor. This bay without a roof. Single-bay extension to south-east with 2 segmental windows and a doorway. Gabled roof to main block. Flint and brick north-west return. Factory cross wing to rear under a gabled pantile roof.
INTERIOR not inspected.


Listing NGR: TL8680383226

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
384781
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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