Union House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. Former workhouse, museum and offices. 6 related planning applications.
Union House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-pewter-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1951
- Type
- Former workhouse, museum and offices
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TF 91 NE 3/18 4/12/51
GRESSENHALL LITCHAM ROAD (north west side) Union House (formerly listed as Union Work-house)
II
Former workhouse, now museum and offices. 1777. Brick with pantile roofs. plan main block with a long right-angled adjoining wing forming a courtyard. Main block. 2 storeys with symmetrical facade flanked by projecting side wings. 5 bays (not including side wings) with 3 centre bays slightly advanced and surmounted by a pediment with clockface in tympanum. Sash windows with glazing bars beneath skewback arches with cambered soffits. 3 centre bays with an extra intermediate level of pivot windows with glazing bars. 2 door- ways, one to each side, with semicircular fanlights. Plain platband and moulded brick modillion cornice. Sawtooth cornice to rear. Arched bell cupola on roof ridge. Adjoining wing. 2 storeys. 14 bays to eastern branch and 12 to southern. 2 square, taller, 3-storey blocks at angle and end of south wing with pyramidal roofs. Former continuous portico of semicircular arches now glazed with sash windows and some lunettes. Upper storey of sash windows with glazing bars. Plain platband. Various later additions to rear of both sections.
Listing NGR: TF9741717014
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