Record Details

NHER Number:43068
Type of record:Building
Name:Wensum House

Summary

An early to mid-18th-century flint and brick house with later alterations.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 9160 2920
Map Sheet:TF92NW
Parish:HEMPTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

January 1984. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"House. Early to mid 18th century. Stucco on flint, gable of flint with brick dressings, red pantiled roof. Two-storey, three-bay façade...Stucco end quoins and rusticated dressings to door and window embrasures central stucco tablet with 'Wensum House'. North gable of flint, brick at attic level; steeply pitched roof. Coped parapets and end-stacks. Outshut rear with two gabled wings at right angles."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 31 January 2006. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 27 December 2023.

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (17th Century to 21st Century - 1700 AD? to 2100 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status

  • Listed Building

Sources and further reading

---Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 396.
<S1>Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1172028.

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