Record Details
| NHER Number: | 4651 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Thorpe Tower |
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Summary
Thorpe Tower is a brick and flint tower with a vice crowned by a turret, thought to date to around 1880. There is an inscription in latin from Horace on the tower, and the windows have been bricked up.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2563 0865 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20NE |
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| Parish: | THORPE ST ANDREW, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Brick and flint tower with vice crowned by turret also bay windows and oriel-turrets. It echoes the tower of 'Pinebanks', the house in whose grounds it stands. Inscription states 'HM Queen Kapiolani ascended this tower 6 June 1887' and below 'Quis enim'; on next side 'Omne tulit punctuam qui miscuit utile dulci'.
(S1) dates house as 1880 and tower as around 1850, but I can see no reason for dating tower earlier than house. (S2) marks 'Thorpe Gazebo' near here, but nothing of this survives. Nothing here on (S3).
Tower now bricked up and derelict inside.
(S1) mentions another Gothic folly here - not seen.
Visited E. Rose (NAU), 26 July 1975.
See (S4) quotation is from Horace.
E. Rose (NAU).
Is this listed? It is not on 1984 list, but neither is it mentioned there as removed from list.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU).
As careful examination of (S2) suggests that Thorpe Gazebo was nearer NHER 4652 than here.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 18 August 2000.
(S5) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 21 December 2005.
Listed 2006 and dated to about 1880.
E. Rose (NLA), 1 June 2006.
April 2012.
Site visited by C. Kolonko (HES), 13 April 2012.
Monument Types
- FOLLY (19th Century - 1880 AD? to 1900 AD)
- GARDEN HOUSE (19th Century - 1880 AD? to 1900 AD)
- PROSPECT TOWER (19th Century to 21st Century - 1880 AD? to 2100 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | 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 692. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Designation: Historic England. 2007?-presen. National Heritage List for England Advice Report. Advice Report. DNF11167. |
| --- | Designation: English Heritage. 1990-2013. English Heritage Listing Notification. Notification. DNF11167. |
| --- | Designation: Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 1975-?. Norfolk Archaeological Unit Recommendation for Listing. Recommendation. DNF11167. |
| <S1> | Monograph: Pevsner, N. 1962. North-East Norfolk and Norwich. The Buildings of England. 1st Edition. p 284. |
| <S2> | Publication: Faden, W. and Barringer, J. C. 1989. Faden's Map of Norfolk in 1797. |
| <S3> | Map: 1842. Tithe map (NRO). |
| <S4> | Publication: Mackie. Norfolk Annals. p.380. |
| <S5> | Photograph: Hughes, G. (Broadland DC). 2005. [unknown]. |
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