The Old House
THE OLD HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1372758
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1372758
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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 OLD HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Norwich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 20350 05945
Details
TG 2005 N CHURCH LANE, EATON (south-west side) 37/163 26.5.54 The Old House - II House, now school. Early C19. Red brick with some rendered details, hipped pantile roof. 3 storeys; 5-first-floor windows. 6-panelled (2 glazed) door in panelled reveals has moulded and rusticated architrave with keyblock under an open pediment on consoles. Sash windows have glazing bars with rusticated lintels on ground and first floor. Moulded eaves cornice. Later red-brick extensions to right and left, and several additions to rear. Interior of main range has doors with 6 raised and fielded panels; cut-string stair with turned bannisters and dado rails. No obvious details, dateable to c.1689 when the house was described as 'de novo aedificta. N. Pevsner, Buildings of England: North-East Norfolk and Norwich, Harmondsworth 1962, 289.
Listing NGR: TG2035005945
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 228909
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North East Norfolk and Norwich, (1962), 289
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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