Record Details
| NHER Number: | 34070 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Wellgate Cottage |
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Summary
A late 15th or 16th century timber framed house that is now divided in two cottages. The house may originally have been an open-hall house, with upper floors and stacks inserted in the 16th century. The house has a double fireplace and bread oven in the central stack, and several 18th and 19th century clay lump and brick lean-tos.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1588 0327 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG10SE |
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| Parish: | KETTERINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
October 1987. Listed, Grade II.
16th century timber framed house now subdivided. Pantiles. 2 1/2 cells, 1 1/2 storeys. Axial stack. Stud work visible on exterior. Partly refaced 18th century and 20th century, several outshuts. Central stack has double fireplace, one with bread oven. Studwork partition across recess. Small semir circular opening from fireplace to outside wall. In north cell, ogee stepped bridgin beam, 2 four centred doorways in wood and stair beside them.
Informatin from (S1).
E. Rose (NLA), 18 November 1998.
(S2) in file interprets this as a 15th century hall house, floored and stacked in 16th century.
E. Rose (NLA), 30 April 2005.
Monument Types
- HALL HOUSE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, W. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 456. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Designation: English Heritage. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1170223. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Document: Brown, S. & Brown, M.. 2004. 2 Wellgate Cottages, Low Street, Ketteringham, Norfolk. |
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