NHER 40914 (Building record) - Warden’s House on Scolt Head Island

Summer warden's house by Edward Boardman (famous Norfolk architect) 1926. Norfolk oak weatherboarding, beach pebble, brick with shingled roof (shingle here means wooden tiles, not stuff from the beach). Single storey square plan with south porch and later north extensions. Built on stilts, rabbits get in beneath floor. Tall pebble chimney struck by lightning around 1960 and rebuilt. Interior entirely wood lined, one living room, two bunk rooms, all original fittings except one plastic doorknob. Building financed by public subscription, architect and timber merchant made no charge, for Norfolk Naturalists Trust (now leased to English Nature). Faces south across flats, set into dunes on north. Listed 2004 as a building in a unique landscape, almost unaltered, and one of the smallest to be architect designed.
Information from (S1).
E. Rose (NLA), 30 October 2004.

May-November 2004. Norfolk Rapid Coastal Zone Archaeological Survey.
Inter-tidal survey (Environmental Zone 8), Context 975:
Situated in the dunes, facing south over the salt marshes.
Wood slated walls, wooden shingled roof, and a brick and flint chimney.
See assessment report (S2) for further details.
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.421).
J. Allen (NLA), 18 April 2005. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 July 2019.