NHER 12175 (Building record) - Leicester Square Farm
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- Listed Building (II) 1077800: LEICESTER SQUARE FARM NORTH STABLE RANGE
- Listed Building (II) 1153226: LEICESTER SQUARE FARMHOUSE WITH QUADRANT WINGS ATTACHED TO NORTH AND SOUTH
- Listed Building (II) 1153244: LEICESTER SQUARE FARM BARN
- Listed Building (II) 1342343: LEICESTER SQUARE FARM SOUTH STABLE RANGE
Location
| Map sheet | TF83SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | SOUTH CREAKE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
Map
Full Description
Very fine late 18th century farm buildings of Holkham estate. Now somewhat dilapidated. Information from [1].
Further information, from same source:
This was the only farm entirely designed by the architect Wyatt. Fine barn with three pairs of cart doors, each pedimented; lunette windows above rectangular ones. House is three bay, two storey, hipped roof. Yard in ruins. Built 1793.
1984 Listing Grade II says house is in fact faced with mathematical tiles imitating gault brick. Roof is modern. Single storey four bay quadrant wings. Garden front has semi-basement windows, central Doric entrance with steps. Central bay projects under pediment with round arch. Some pediments removed on wings. South quadrant terminates in game larder, north quadrant in modern balancing block. Well staircase. Courtyard walls. Stable range to north in English bond red brick; seven bays with two bay granary tower at each end. Less altered than balancing south range, originally similar. Nine bay barn, red brick, neo-Classical, forms east range. Three pedimented cart door projections, Diocletian brick honeycombe windows. Gable walls rebuilt and west side much altered.
E. Rose (NAU) 28 October 1985.
See file for further details and architect's drawings (S1).
Associated Sources (8)
- --- SNF7576 Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 662.
- --- SNF97531 Newspaper Article: Lynn News. 1997. Fancy a move to Leicester Square?. 26 September.
- --- SNF10367 Oblique Aerial Photograph: Various. ? - 2020. Norfolk Air Photo Library: Oblique Collection. TF8633/D-G; 23-JUL-1991 (HES 293/GHK 2-5).
- --- SNF83057 Photograph: 1990. Leicester Square Farm, South Creake. Print.
- --- SNF83284 Photograph: Leicester Square Farm, South Creake. Photograph.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- <S1> SNF49212 Drawing: Various. Various. Architectural plans.
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Record last edited
Feb 7 2025 1:28PM