Record Details

NHER Number:12051
Type of record:Building
Name:The Longhouse

Summary

The Longhouse is a 15th or 16th century house. In 1976 a 15th or 16th century wall painting featuring rosettes and an animal was revealed.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 045 440
Map Sheet:TG04SW
Parish:CLEY NEXT THE SEA, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

The Longhouse (1-2 Longhouse Yard).

1976. NARG survey
A late 16th century courtyard house. Long beam spans entrance passage. Unusual wall painting revealed on prepared wall plaster on upper storey. Sealed by later chimneystack.

1978. (S3)

September 1987. Listed, Grade II.
Late 15th century house divided into two dwellings. Four bays. One and a half storeys. Rendered. Passage to rear between bays three and four. Interal gable stacks and central axial stack. Two storeyed 18th century wing on 4th bay. Wall painting now encased by wall.
Information from (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 20 October 1987.

Important wall painting - 15th/16th century.
See correspondence and photographs (S2) in file.
See (S3).
E. Rose (NAU), 20 October 1987.

Grid reference corrected May 1994.

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • WALL PAINTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • WALL PAINTING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status

  • Listed Building

Sources and further reading

---Aerial Photograph: TG 0443/ G, H.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Monograph: Pevsner, N. and Wilson, B. 1997. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 435.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
---Slide: Various. Slide.
<S1>Designation: English Heritage. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1172597.
<S2>Photograph: Horne, F.A.. 1976. 75-31.
<S3>Article in Serial: Rose, E. and Pooley, G. 1978. A Medieval Wallpainting fom Cley-next-the-Sea. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXVII Pt I pp 115-116.

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