Description

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TG 0041
17/96

LANGHAM
BOLT ROAD (north Side)
Langham Hall and flint wall with iron railings and war memorial

(Formerly listed as Langham Hall and flint wall with iron railings to south)

II
House. c1820. Said to be designed by the owner, the Rev Stephen Frost Rippinghall. Gault brick, red pantiles. Two storey, five-bay house with two storey one-bay wing to left, lower recessed wing on right, services at rear. Stripped Greek Revival. Ground floor: four sash windows with glazing bars. First floor: five sashes with glazing bars, all under flat rubbed brick arches. Simplified Doric porch, unfluted order entablature, metope frieze and cornice, all wooden. Six panel raised and fielded door. Brick pilasters, stucco cornice, attic above with recessed rectangular panels. Stacks recessed behind main ridge, moulded gault brick. Left wing ground floor Tripartite French window with glazing bars; first floor sash. Flint wall with brick pilasters to south, with stone coping and iron railings giving view of Church from house.

Langham War Memorial is located on the corner of North Street and Holt Road, set into the curving flint wall of Langham Hall. It comprises a wooden canopied crucifix atop a red granite round-headed tablet on two small projecting granite brackets, which are set into a plastered surround (painted black below and white above), enclosed by a brick arch with dentilated cornice and domed coping, which is set into an existing, curving flint wall. The tablet bears the inscription in incised and black painted lettering and reads: 1914 EUROPEAN WAR 1919/ LANGHAM/ (NAMES).

Listing NGR: TG0078941346

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26301486

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings