Record Details

NHER Number:43068
Type of record:Building
Name:Wensum House

Summary

An early to mid 18th century flint and brick house with later alterations.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 91604 29206
Map Sheet:TF92NW
Parish:HEMPTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

January 1984. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
House. Early to mid-18th century. Stucco on flint, gable of flint with brick dressings, red pantiled roof. Two storey three bay facade. Two ground-floor tripartite plate- glass sashes, part glazed door. Two first-floor sashes, plate-glass. Stucco end quoins and rusticated dressings to door and window embrasures central stucco tablet with "Wensum House". North gable of flint, brick at attic level; steeply pitched roof. Coped parapets and end-stacks. Outshut rear with two gabled wings at right angles.
Information from (S1).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 31 January 2006.

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (17th Century to 21st Century - 1700 AD? to 2100 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status

  • Listed Building

Sources and further reading

---Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, W. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 396.
<S1>Designation: English Heritage. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1172028.

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