Record Details
| NHER Number: | 32778 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | The Grove, Mount Street |
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Summary
A large mid 16th-century timber framed house, with 18th-entury alterations and a 19th-century Gothic porch. The house was clearly an important and high status building in the 16th century.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 1182 8035 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM18SW |
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| Parish: | DISS, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
June 1972. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description Excerpt:
"16th century with mid 19th-century large wing on right hand, timber framed, plastered. Original pantile roof has been partly raised and partly remains behind windows inserted to match others but lighting no rooms. Six-panel fielded door. Mid 19th-century pointed arched porch, and door in 16th-century style."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 15 March 2019. Amended by P. Beers (HES), 03 April 2020.
Basically a high quality mid 16th century house.
Present plan is half H shaped but the wings may not be original.
Altered around 1800 when new roof placed on top of old, walls raised and new windows inserted.
Gothic porch added in about 1890.
In 1960s a central section of the house was cut away and wings added.
See (S1) and (S2).
E. Rose (NLA) 16 May 1997.
See (S3) for details of the former gardens, which included substantial plasure grounds with garden buildings and a pond, as well as a kitchen garden with glasshouses.
Monument Types
- HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Illustration: Various. Various. Architectural plans. |
| --- | Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, W. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 302. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1049717. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Document: Rose, E.. 1997. Building Report. Building Report. |
| <S3> | Unpublished Document: Taigel, A. 1997. Norfolk Gardens Trust: Town Gardens Survey - Volume One. Norfolk Gardens Trust. |
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