NHER 13255 (Building record) - Manor House, Norwich Road

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Manor House is a plastered, timber-framed building with brick end walls, probably built during the late 16th or early 17th centuries. To the northwest is a later timber-framed wing, and there is an timber-framed outbuilding which may have once been used as a dairy.

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Map sheet TM19SW
Civil Parish TACOLNESTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Formerly Manor Farm.

Probably early 17th century manor house, but much restored and altered.
See (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 13 July 1983.

(S2) agrees with this dating and that the first floor corridor is original.

(S3) includes an outbuilding, possibly once a house in its own right; timber framed with offcentre stack, windows on two storeys, some of them slatted as if for use as a dairy.
E. Rose (NLA), 4 October 2005.

September 1951. Listed, Grade II.
Main house as late 16th/early 17th century. Timber frame, plastered. Brick end walls, south end with stepped gable and internal chimney stack. Steep tiled roof with gabled ends. Two storeys and attic. Internal brick chimney stack at each end and one off centre. Projecting on northwest, later plastered timber frame wing with gable-ended tile roof.
For further details see listed description.
D. Robertson (NLA), 7 July 2006.

December 2006.
The Manor House has many detailed similarities to the neighbouring Dower House (NHER 19350). An oriel window with original sliding shutters survives.
See (S5) and (S6) for further details,
H. White, (NLA), 11 November 2009.

  • --- Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service.
  • --- Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 691.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Unpublished Document: Rose, E.. 1983. Building Report.
  • <S2> Unpublished Document: Brown, S. & Brown, M.. 2003. Manor House, Tacolneston, Norfolk.
  • <S3> Drawing: Various. Various. Architectural plans.
  • <S4> Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1302285.
  • <S5> Monograph: Longcroft, A., Brown, S. & Forrest, R.. 2009. The Tacolneston Project: A study of historic buildings in the Claylands of South Norfolk.. Journal of the Norfolk Historic Buildings Group. Vol 4.
  • <S6> Unpublished Document: Brown, S and Brown, M. 2006. NHBG report. Building survey of the Manor House, Tacolneston.

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Jan 31 2018 4:05PM

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