Description

TL 5663 SWAFFHAM PRIOR HIGH STREET
(West Side)

15/151 Outbuildings and
Stable to No 86
Swaffham Prior House

GV II

House, now stables and outbuildings, early C17. Wing, now a
garage, added later in C17. Timber-framed, rendered at first
floor, and ground floor underbuilt in red brick, English bond,
late in C17. Plain tiled roof with a ridge stack. Plan of
parlour, hall and service bay, with a cross-passage between the
hall and service bay. Two storeys. Many of the openings date
from the conversion to stables and outbuildings, but the
cross-passage openings are still intact and at first floor there
are late C17 or early C18 iron casements of two or three leaded
lights and a four light horizontal sliding sash. The rear
range, now a garage, is late C17 and of red brick, English
bond. The gable end is surmounted by a clock turret, late C19.

R.C.H.M. (North East Cambs.), p121, mon (4)

Listing NGR: TL5637263808

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26419990

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)