Durham'S Farmhouse

TL 4843 ICKLETON BUTCHER'S HILL (North side) 21/219 No. 31 (Durham's Farmhouse) GV II Farmhouse, now a house. Late C16 with C17 or later additions, C19 and C20 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered and with roughcast render, brick and flint replacement wall. Roofs of two levels plain tiled. Gable end stack to right hand and rectangular planned ridge stack to left of centre. Two storeys; original three unit plan with rear outshut. Main entrance to left hand with C20 six-panelled door, two ground floor three-light casement windows and two first floor horizontal sliding sash windows. Some pargetting in rear elevation; flint and brick west wall. Interior: Few exposed timbers, open hearth. Durham's given by King John to Canon's of West Dereham Norfolk, was one of four manors in Ickleton that descended together from 1538 (VCH); the farmhouse was sold in 1971. RCHM Report 1949 VCH. Vol VI pp231, 233, 234

Listing NGR: TL4940543962