Record Details
| NHER Number: | 19475 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Corporation Farmhouse |
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Summary
A 17th century farmhouse, with a timber framed barn, animal sheds, stables, dating from the 17th century to the 19th century. The farm was once owned by the Great Hospital in Norwich, and then by the Norwich Corporation.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 15939 99902 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM19NE |
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| Parish: | BRACON ASH, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
October 1951. Listed, Grade II.
Lobby entrance house.
Dated to 17th century on (S1), which mentions fine ovolo moulded beams with elaborate stops on first floor.
19th century brick facade of two storeys, 6 bays.
18th century stair outshut to rear with curved gable.
Original winding stair survives only first floor to attic.
Triple angled stack original with later side shafts added.
Eight trussed roof with collars, hipped to one end in 18th/19th century.
E. Rose (NAU) 28 September 1983.
UEA farm buildings survey, see (S2), states that name comes from ownership by Norwich Corporation; originally held by the Great Hospital.
Timber framed barn of about 1600, large for the period, and attached granary, with another timber building at the other end, both probably contemporary.
Second barn about 1700, altered.
Stable, probably 18th century, and animal sheds 19th century.
E. Rose (NLA) 6 September 1993.
Barn to northeast November 1999, Delisted.
Information from (S3)
H. Mellor (HES), 24 July 2018.
Monument Types
- ANIMAL HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- BARN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- FARMSTEAD (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- STABLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TIMBER FRAMED BUILDING (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Illustration: Various. Various. Architectural plans. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, W. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 790. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Designation: English Heritage. 1990-2013. English Heritage Listing Notification. Notification. DNF10705. |
| <S1> | Designation: English Heritage. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1373054. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Document: UEA. 1987. UEA Historic Farm Building Survey.. |
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