Record Details
| NHER Number: | 17913 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Old Rectory hollow way and pill box |
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Summary
Earthworks of an old hollow way have been reported from this garden where there is also a World War Two pillbox and two post medieval wells. The pillbox could not be found in 1995. Metal detecting here recovered one post medieval coin. The house itself was built in 1850 and has had substantial rebuilding in the 20th century, but within the coach house , also thought to date to the 19th century, is a reused beam dated to around 1530 suggesting there may have been an earlier house on the same site.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 93009 08455 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF90NW |
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| Parish: | BRADENHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
9 February 1982. Visit. Old Rectory grounds.
Earthworks reported by owner at west end grounds resemble a hollow way running from west a few metres but then abruptly stopping at the raised lawn and turning north then east for a short distance. This roughly parallels the boundary of now vanished enclosures shown within grounds on (S1). Old course of road? to south, or simply garden earthworks? Rectory itself is yellow and red brick building of about 1850, much altered in early 20th century, but in coach house behind, which seems slightly earlier than house extended about1900, is a fine reused roll-moulded beam of about 1530 now used to support a cartshed lintel. Owners say 'many large old beams' exist below the floorboards in the house. Grounds contain two wells, northern now a septic tank. By southern is a Home Guard pill box, brick, rectangular. Concrete roof, small iron framed windows at eaves.
E. Rose (NAU), 9 February 1982.
See record form in file by source [1], who adds: May have gone by August 1995.
Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey No. K4-6.
D. Walker (NLA) July 1996.
October 1999. Metal detecting.
One post medieval coin. See list in file.
K. Hinds (NLA), 24 February 2000.
Monument Types
- ENCLOSURE (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- HOLLOW WAY (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- ROAD (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
- HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WELL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- PILLBOX (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Finds
- ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Map: Ordnance Survey, First Edition, 6 Inch. 1879-1886. Ordnance Survey 1st Edition 6 inch map.. |
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