NHER 18441 (Building record) - High Common Cottage

The Norfolk Heritage Explorer is a filtered version of the Norfolk HER intended for casual research. Please contact us to consult the full record.

Summary

This timber-framed house is thought to date to the early 16th century, and probably began life as an open hall house. The screens passage has western service doors, but three queenpost trusses in the roof survive from the original building.

Protected Status/Designation

Listed Building (II) 1152546: HIGH COMMON COTTAGE

Location

Map sheet	TM19NW
Civil Parish	WRENINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Find a placename, postcode or grid reference

Map layers

Base layers

Info

Record list

Tools

Full Description

1982. Building Survey.
Crudely built timber framed house with early features. Probably a later 16th century date though.
See report (S1) in file.
E. Rose (NAU), 15 October 1982.

December 1983. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
Former farmhouse. Late 16th-century. Six-bay rendered timber frame with corrugated asbestos roof. Two storeys. Scattered fenestration with diamond mullion windows (mainly renewed in original mortices) of 8 to 3 lights. Off-centre axial stack. Service doors with through passage to west. Principal beams of heavy scantling with wide chamfers and stepped stops. Three surviving queen post trusses.
Information from (S2).

Also noted in (S3).

High Common Cottage was also previously recorded as NHER 48532, which was erroneously located at High Common Farm (approximately 450m to the west). This error appears to have been due to an incorrect grid reference in the designation record, which placed it in the vicinity of High Common Farm. NHER 48532 now records a group of 19th-century farm buildings at High Common Farm.
P. Watkins (HES), 10 May 2016.

Associated Sources (5)

--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF56514 Unpublished Document: Rose, E.. 1982. Building Report.. Building Report.
<S2> SNF48662 Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1152546.
<S3> SNF7576 Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 790.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (3)

Object Types (0)

Related NHER Records (0)

Find out more...(2)

Record last edited

Jan 5 2022 12:08PM