NHER 10402 (Building record) - The Grange

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Summary

An early 17th-century house that had substantial alterations carried out in the late 18th and 20th centuries.

Protected Status/Designation

Location

Map sheet TG40NE
Civil Parish BURGH CASTLE, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Map

According to (S1) this building is marked as an antiquity on the 'OS 6" map'; labelled as 'The Grange - restored'.
Information from (S2).
It is unclear exactly which map is being referred to - it appears to be labelled simply as 'The Grange' on all the 6" maps produced prior to 1950. A note made by R. R. Clarke that never made it onto an actual Ordnance Survey map?
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 October 2022.

November 1954. Listed, Grade II*
See (S3).

May 1979. Field Observation.
Visited by E. Rose (NAU).
Red brick, five bays, two storey plus three dormers. Central bay projects slightly, with wooden columned porch. Entrance hall stone flagged, with staircase rising at rear. Date apparently end of 17th century; there is said to be a pane in an upper window inscribed 16--. Yellow brick east extension of 18th century.
Listed Grade II*, but in very poor condition; present owners beginning restoration, say they do not know why the OS refer to it as restored as it never seems to have received attention before, but it may be connected with [1] who lived here and claimed it stood on the site of a medieval monastic grange and a Civil War horse barracks.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 3 May 1979.
Information form (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 October 2022.

Downgraded to Grade II.
See (S3), which notes façade is in fact of seven bays but outer bays are blank.
E. Rose (NLA) 24 November 1998. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 October 2022.

Excerpt of current Listing Description:
"House. Early 17th century, rebuilt early 18th century, greatly altered 1760s and again 1977-1982. Brick. Black glazed pantiles to front (south), concrete pantiles to remainder. Two-storey and dormer attic south façade of 1760s in seven bays. Outer bays are blank and rendered. Central half-glazed door under flat 20th-century portico on octagonal piers. Central bay broken forward between pilasters. Further pilasters also enclose centre five bays. Windows are all renewed sashes with glazing bars, those to ground floor under segmental arches. Renewed modillion eaves cornice. Bell-based gabled roof with internal gable end stacks. Mid-19th-century gabled cross wing to east, of two storeys, constructed of gault bricks. West gable with diaper patterning of burnt headers and one window below hood mould...At rear a small patch of early 17th-century brickwork survives between two large gabled 18th-century cross wings.
Interior: Rear room retains early 17th-century four-centred fireplace with roll moulded jambs and plain rosettes in spandrels. Roof structure of tie beams, two tiers taper-tenoned butt purlins, collars and arched windbraces. Remainder of interior 20th century."
Information from (S3).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S3) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 25 October 2022.

  • --- Drawing: Various. Various. Architectural plans.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Burgh Castle.
  • <S2> Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S3> Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1372903.

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Record last edited

Oct 27 2022 9:50AM

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