The Orchards
THE ORCHARDS, 20, NORWICH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249156
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Orchards
- Statutory Address:
- THE ORCHARDS, 20, NORWICH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249156
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Orchards
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ORCHARDS, 20, NORWICH ROAD
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 ORCHARDS, 20, NORWICH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Broadland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aylsham
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 19370 26732
Details
AYLSHAM
SK NORWICH ROAD
317-1//10000 No.20
The Orchards
II
House. 1847. By John Adey Repton for William Repton. Red brick laid in English bond with half-timbered first floor and C20 concrete tile roofs. 2 storeys with 3-storey tower. Complex irregular plan. Tudor Revival style. EXTERIOR: entrance front to north with 2 gables over brick ground floor. Left gable with 5-light transomed casement to ground floor, timber-framed first floor with projecting 3-light casement set within decorative framed panels. Right gable-head projects over ground floor on pair of stone console brackets: ground floor with shouldered stone entrance doorway, first-floor with 2-light oriel window within decorative timber framing. Asymmetrical west front is 3-window range with advanced gable to left. Ground floor with 3 2-light casements, the central casement projecting. Gable with 4-light casement in lean-to under sloping roof. Timbered first floor with 3-light oriel to gable and 2 2-light casements to main wall to right. Stack to far right on wall plane terminating in twin octagonal flues with star tops. Further ridge stacks at irregular intervals with 3 and 4 octagonal star-topped flues. South front is 4-window range with projecting gables to right and left, that to right with 4-light projecting window, to left with canted bay window. Projecting 3-light casement in middle of recessed centre. First floor of gables each with projecting 3-light casement of differing design. 2 2-light casements to centre flank small single light. Asymmetrical east front to street with centrepiece developed as a 3-storey square tower to left under pyramid roof, the top stage half-timbered, and a projecting jettied gable-end to right. Half-timbered main ranges behind. Scattered fenestration of 2- and 3-light casements. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Important early example of developed Tudor Revival style.
Listing NGR: TG1937026732
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431012
- 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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