NHER 3007 (Building record) - Swanton Morley House, formerly Field House and estate farmstead

Formerly Field House.
Courtyards built over since 1883.
E. Rose (NAU).

Not courtyard:- outbuilding yards in grid, now infilled.
E. Rose (NAU).

See (S1) in file for details of this Evans-Lombe estate farm; brick and pantile construction with iron grilles and bolts. Included blacksmith's shop and engine house, and stabling for twenty horses.
Compiled by E. Rose (NLA), 10 September 1993.

(S2) in file states the architect of the house was Thomas Jekyll.
E. Rose (NLA), 24 February 2006.

(S3) details works to Field House, considered to be 'Jeckyll's most significant improvement' to the Evans Lombe estate. He added an assymetrically placed front porch with heavily studded door and changed the sitting room into an entrance space and the entrance hall into a study. He removed the main staircase and and added additional bedrooms. S3 also reproduces Jeckyll's designs for the house and a photograph of one of the stable door latches of around 1853-7 made by Barnard and Bishop of Norwich, a firm with which Jeckyll was closely associated.
A. Yardy (HES), 11 June 2013.