Record Details
| NHER Number: | 39399 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Harling Workhouse |
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Summary
This is the site of a pre-Union parish poorhouse. It may have been demolished around 1830 when it no longer appears on old maps. The school was built on the site in the 1830s and more housing was constructed in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Part of the walls which still stand 1.8m high in some places may have been built at the same time as the workhouse. A boiler was excavated from the site in 2003. This may have belonged to the workhouse.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 99249 86400 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL98NE |
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| Parish: | EAST HARLING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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| HARLING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Site of pre-Union parish poorhouse traced from Enclosure Maps and documents from late 18th century until 1830s.
See (S1).
Site now built over, partly by 1830s school, partly by late 19th and mid 20th century housing. (S1) states wall around site is contemporary but some of it may have been built later to screen the view of the workhouse from the Hall.
See (S2) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 28 August 2003.
2003.
Boiler excavated on site, awaits inspection but there are references to a workhouse boiler in 1824.
E. Rose (NLA), 5 September 2003.
Monument Types
- BOILER HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WORKHOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1902-7. Ordnance Survey 25 inch 2nd edition (revised 1902-7). |
| --- | *Verbal Communication: Bailey, D.. 2003. [unknown]. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Document: Bailey, D.. 2003. Letter. RE: East Harling Parish Workhouse. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Document: Rose, E.. 2003. East Harling parish workhouse site. |
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