NHER 21665 (Building record) - 2 Low Road

2 Low Road.

Noted in (S1).

1984. Listed Grade II.
Former farm house, 17th century, of pebble dashed brick with pantiled roof. Lobby entrance type of two storeys and attics. Principal facade to east of three windows. Off centre entrance doorway with 20th-century door, opposite stack. Two-light mullion window above. 17th-century five-light moulded timber mullion window with central wrought iron light and glazing bars, at first floor north end. 18th-century mullion windows at south end with segmental brick arches at ground floor level. 20th-century casement window at ground floor north end. Casement window in south gable. Gabled dormer with two-light casement window to east. Plinth and parapet gables with kneelers. Off centre axial stack. 20th-century extension at rear not of special interest.
Information from (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 25 October 2017.

August 1985. Field Observation.
Visit.
Location and description in (S2) checked - it is on corner of Low Road and main Fakenham road.
The five light window has ovolo mullions and therefore could also be late 16th century.
E. Rose (NAU), 22 August 1985.

(S3) and (S4) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 2 August 2004.

January 1988. Building Survey.
Survey of No 2 Low Road (erroneously identified as No 1).
Single-cell house of Class-S type with dormered attic, dating from after c. 1620 on the basis of its nicked stops. It was extended southwards by two bays in the mid/late 17th century to form a Class-J, three-bay, lobby-entrance house. Unusually the second build had not only stack-side stairs but also a flight leading up from within the undivided service end of the building. It was also unusual that the central first-floor room may have been open to the roof. The first build retains some of its quadrant-moulded mullion windows, together with flattened-lozenge mullion windows flanking the stack. The cyma-moulded rectangular mullions in the second build either represent 18th-century refenestration or an early example of their use.
See report (S5) for details description, floor plan and drawings.
P. Watkins (HES), 25 October 2017.