NHER 43254 (Building record) - Clock tower, Heydon Hall

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Summary

An early to mid 19th century red brick clock tower with a black glazed pantile roof. The building is T-shaped in plan with a central tower of painted wood and a lead-covered bell cupola on columns, topped with a weather vane.

Protected Status/Designation

Location

Map sheet TG12NW
Civil Parish HEYDON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Map

March 1988. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
Clock tower. Early to mid 19th century. Red brick with black glazed pantile roof. One and a half storeys with central tower, T shaped plan. Shaped north and south gables with brick coping and moulded eaves corbels. To the west a central projection under a shaped gable with stuccoed brick coping and finial. Large doorway with keyed semicircular rubbed brick arch with stone impost blocks. Double doors with vertical battens. Brick eaves corbel table. On the east wall, a smaller single door opening and a small window with stuccoed hollow chamfered surround. Central square neo-Jacobean clock tower of painted timber construction: base frieze of triglyphs and metopes, corbels supporting Ionic corner pilasters with blocking and strapwork decoration. Dentilled cornice. Octagonal bell cupola with ogee lead-covered dome on eight Doric columns. Weather vane finial to dome.
Information from (S1).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 15 February 2006.

  • --- Monograph: Pevsner, N. and Wilson, B. 1997. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 550.
  • --- Photograph: Photographs of Clock tower, Heydon Hall. Colour.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1372696.

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Record last edited

Aug 7 2018 3:13PM

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