NHER 46309 (Building record) - Colkirk House

June 1984. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description Excerpt:
"Large house. Dated 1834 on chimney shafts. Gault brick, some red brick and some stone. Concrete tiled roofs. Main block forms a cross wing with gable-ends only slightly advanced in relation to double pile service wing. Two storeys with attics and vaulted cellars. Main façade to north of three bays with pedimented and slightly advanced central bay flanked by plain paired pilasters...Stone porch with pilasters and deep plain entablature...Moulded brick platband, moulded cornices and arms in central pediment with motto "cor unum via una". Paired pilasters to angles and to pedimented gable-ends. Rear wing of three bays...South facade in red brick with slightly advanced lateral bays with broken pediments forming imposts of semicircular headed windows.
Interior. Fine stone flying stair with decorative cast iron balusters, lantern and plasterwork. Hall of three groin vaulted, three-centred bays. Fine Regency plasterwork throughout main rooms. One late 19th-century fireplace with abstract geometrical motifs designed by Jekyll and produced by Barnard, Bishop and Barnard (foundries) of Norwich."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Aldridge (NLA), 4 September 2006. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 10 March 2023.