Record Details
| NHER Number: | 17373 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Crow Hall Farm |
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Summary
This late 16th century house is timber framed with a brick gable wall. Architectural evidence suggest that the building was once perhaps longer.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 112 062 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG10NW |
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| Parish: | WRAMPLINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Late 16th century house. Timber framed with brick gable wall. Perhaps once longer.
Full details and report (S1) in file.
E. Rose (NAU) 23 June 1981.
August 1983. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Former farmhouse. 17th century; full-height side extension of c.1980. Two-bay rendered and underbuilt timber frame with one returned brick and flint gable-end and a thatched roof. Two storeys with attic. Later central front door...Row of six bricklined recesses - either nesting boxes or bee boles. Gable end stacks. Six jowled wall posts and one ovolo moulded spine beam. Winding stair to side of each stack; southern stair goes to first floor only. Several original doors and one surviving cock's head hinge. Roof of four principal trusses with butt-purlins and collars."
Information from (S2).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S2) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 20 May 2025.
The bee boles noted above would have housed straw hives known as skeps. They are amongst the small number of surviving Norfolk examples recorded in the 'Bee Boles Register' (S3), although this gives no additional details - the only source of information being the brief mention in (S2).
P. Watkins (HES), 20 May 2025.
Monument Types
- BEE BOLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- HOUSE (16th Century to 21st Century - 1560 AD to 2100 AD)
- TIMBER FRAMED BUILDING (16th Century to 21st Century - 1560 AD to 2100 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 790. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Document: Rose, E.. 1981. Building Report. Building Report. |
| <S2> | Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1373091. |
| <S3> | Website: Eva Crane Trust. Bee Boles Register. https://www.evacranetrust.org/en/page/bee-boles-register. 19 May 2025. Registration Number 1420. |
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