Leisure Hour

One of a distinctive group of chalets found along the waterways of the Broads, Leisure Hour was built in the early C20.

MATERIALS: timber framed with timber boarded walls and a Norfolk reed thatched roof.

PLAN: it is rectangular plan, aligned roughly east to west.

EXTERIOR: the chalet stands on the north bank of the River Bure and is of a cottage orné style. Its windows are mainly timber-framed mullion and transoms with square-paned transom lights and the thatched roof has a patterned ridge piece and a deep overhanging eaves. The chalet's principal elevation faces south across the River Bure and is a five-bay symmetrical composition with the three centre bays recessed behind a veranda with a timber balustrade with stop chamfered spindles, moulded handrail and a short flight of steps with newel posts with square acorn caps. The veranda is supported by timber posts with ogee braces of which those to the two narrower end bays form ogee-arched heads. At the rear centre of the veranda there is a pair of uPVC French doors flanked on each side by three-light mullion and transoms. The end bays each have a four-light mullion and transom while the returns have identical windows. The rear elevation has a five-light mullion and transom to the centre with a four-light mullion and transom to its left-hand side and a two-light mullion and transom to its right-hand side.

INTERIOR: the interior has panelled timber boarded walls which are believed to be original.