The Monastery is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1987. Monastic grange, private house. 1 related planning application.
The Monastery
- WRENN ID
- high-flue-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1987
- Type
- Monastic grange, private house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/02/2020
TG 33 SE 5/45
HAPPISBURGH THE STREET (east side) The Monastery
[Formerly listed under WHIMPWELL STREET (east side)]
G.V. II
Monastic Grange, now private house. Early C16, altered C19 and C20. Flint (Quaternary), chert and brick with thatched roof. Originally an open hall house. Two storeys. West front with two central half glazed doors, two segmental-headed casements to ground floor and three to first floor. All details C20. Gabled roof with gable heads supported on kneelers. Internal gable end stacks. Gabled cross wing to rear of one storey and dormer attic. This wing is former hall. One door and two segmental-headed casements to ground floor, all C20. Two dormers under eyebrow thatching. East gable head on brick kneelers.
Interior. Hall entered through two four-centred brick arches, one now converted to a window, with double hollow mouldings. Arched and hollow moulded brick piscina in ground floor of original hall. Chamfered bridging beams to ceiling, floored probably C18. North-south range roof of ties and collars, the two linked by jowled Queen posts. Many renewed timbers. Over hall Crown post roof removed when this wing floored.
Listing NGR: TG3803331069
Detailed Attributes
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