Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8640 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | The Cobbles, Lynn Road |
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Summary
An early 18th century and later house, now offices, two storeys high with a dormer attic. The rendered façade once had two pedimented doorways, but that to the left has been replaced by a sash window, although this is topped by the original doorway fanlight.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 7039 9997 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL79NW |
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| Parish: | STOKE FERRY, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
July 1959. Listed Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"House, now offices. Early 18th century. Brick, carstone and flint, rendered to facade. Slate roofs. Two storeys and dormer attic. Irregular bay system. Originally two doors, that to left now a…window …Panelled door to right within fluted case and…[s]hop front further right…Two gabled cross wings to rear. Butt purlin roof."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 27 November 2019.
9 March 1976. Visit.
Listed (S1). Block along Lynn Road with two projecting wings at rear in factory yard. Basically 17th century with herringbone brickwork in gables and typical small square windows each side of chimney stacks in gable walls of rear wings; now mostly blocked. Interior of garrets retain this layout, with small rooms in thickness of walls. Street
façade is 18th/19th century with one Georgian doorcase; another has been removed leaving only the fanlight over a window. Interior has wooden staircase of this date, otherwise late 19th century, in lower floors. In very bad condition, full of rot and rats. Permission to demolish sought February 1976.
E. Rose (NAU), 9 March 1976.
Norfolk Archaeological Research Group (NARG) to make a full survey.
E. Rose (NAU).
Not demolished. Listing Grade II (S1) dates all to early 18th century except sash windows and dormers, 19th century. Notes barrel vaulted passage from door to inner door; tongue stops to main room beams; butt purlin roof.
E. Rose (NAU), 23 August 1985.
Photographs (S2) from NARG survey in file.
According to (S1) and (S3), now converted to offices.
Monument Types
- HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1077745. |
| <S2> | Photograph: 1976. A2, A3, B7, B8, B9, C10, C11, C12, D4, D5, D6, E10, G7, H4. |
| <S3> | Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 672. |
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