Record Details
| NHER Number: | 43254 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Clock tower, Heydon Hall |
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Summary
An early to mid 19th century red brick clock tower with a black glazed pantile roof. The building is T-shaped in plan with a central tower of painted wood and a lead-covered bell cupola on columns, topped with a weather vane.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 11700 27720 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG12NW |
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| Parish: | HEYDON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
March 1988. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
Clock tower. Early to mid 19th century. Red brick with black glazed pantile roof. One and a half storeys with central tower, T shaped plan. Shaped north and south gables with brick coping and moulded eaves corbels. To the west a central projection under a shaped gable with stuccoed brick coping and finial. Large doorway with keyed semicircular rubbed brick arch with stone impost blocks. Double doors with vertical battens. Brick eaves corbel table. On the east wall, a smaller single door opening and a small window with stuccoed hollow chamfered surround. Central square neo-Jacobean clock tower of painted timber construction: base frieze of triglyphs and metopes, corbels supporting Ionic corner pilasters with blocking and strapwork decoration. Dentilled cornice. Octagonal bell cupola with ogee lead-covered dome on eight Doric columns. Weather vane finial to dome.
Information from (S1).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 15 February 2006.
Monument Types
- CLOCK TOWER (18th Century to 21st Century - 1800 AD to 2100 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Monograph: Pevsner, N. and Wilson, B. 1997. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 550. |
| --- | Photograph: Photographs of Clock tower, Heydon Hall. Colour. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Designation: English Heritage. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1372696. |
Related records
| 7358 | Part of: Heydon Hall (Building) |
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