The
Bull Inn, No.1 Church
Street (east-side), Grade II (LB2).
Public House, south-east corner of junction
of Church Street and Mileham Road (B1145).17th
Century with 18th Century former stables and an early 19th Century
side extension. Rendered timber frame with flint and brick gable-ends.,
brick stables and colour washed brick side extension. Pantiled
roofs, black to original block.
Two storeys with attic to original
block. Original block of two bays with 19th Century sash windows
at ground floor three-light casements above and flat headed dormers
with two-light casements with glazing bars. Gable-end stacks. 19th Century side extension of three bays with four
sash windows with glazing bqrs and one later 19th Century replacement.
Central raised and fielded paneled door. Doorcase with reeded
pilasters
and the flat hood on the pair of shaped brackets. Steps with swept
metal railing.
Former stables form frontage along
Mileham Road. Three sash windows with glazing bars at the upper
floor. Three ground floor windows beyond (one blocked) with segmental
heads. Dentilled
cornice and carriage entrance beside main block. Beams with ogee
and nicked stops in original block. Brick fireplace with plain
chamfered shallow arch. Some 18th Century doors with raised and
fielded panels. Jowled wall posts and butt-purlin roof to original
block.
History
Petty sessions for the division of Launditch
were held at the Bull Inn, on the first Wednesday on every month
for the prosecution of felons. The turn of the century saw more
cases referred to Dereham County Court. Probably the last case
at the Bull was the inquest held over the death of an air when
his Fairy Battle aircraft crashed in the Mileham area in 1938.
Manor
Farmhouse, No.4 Church
Street (west-side), Grade II (LB11).
Opposite Church.
Former
Farmhouse, late 16th Century or later.
Rendered timber frame replaced
with colour washed brick to rear and ground floor. Brick gable-ends
and modern pantiled roof.
Two storeys and four bays of 19th Century
three-light chamfered mullion
windows with transoms
and skewback arches with cambered soffits
at ground floor.
Central paneled front door with simple doorcase.
South gable-end probably early 17th Century stack addition in
English bond brickwork.
Off-centre axial stack.
Shallow pitched
18th or 19th Century roof.
Frame of heavy scantling with wide
chamfers and stepped stops, joists also chamfered.
Post
Office, No.12 Church
Street (west-side),
Grade II (LB7).
Post Office, shop (General Store) and dwelling.
18th
Century and later, brick with Black pantiled
roof, two storeys probably with attics.
Original
house of five bays of sash windows with glazing bars. Skewback
arches to ground floor windows.
Central doorway with raised and
fielded panelled door and St. Andrew cross lower panel.
Doorcase with dentilated
pediment on console.
Plain platband and rusticated quoins.
Early extension to side and rear with a 20th century
shop-front and two sash windows with glazing bars above. Similar
rusticated quoins.
Steeply Pitchas roof and central axial stack to original
house.
The front wall features an inset George
V post box.
No.15
Church Street (east-side), Grade II (LB4).
Adjacent Butcher shop and opposite Post Office, similar to School
House.
House with 20th Century Butchers House
adjoining north side. 18th Century, brick with black pantiled
roof.
Two storeys and four bays of sash windows with glazing bars
under skewback arches.
Raised and fielded paneled front door opposite
off-centre stack.
Door case with engaged Tuscan columns supporting
a mouled pediment.
Moulded brick cornice and rusticated quoins.
Platbands and tumbling in gable-ends.
No.17
Church Street "School House" (east-side), Grade II (LB3).
Former shop and dwelling, now part
of school. Brick with some gault flint. Pantiled roofs.
Two storeys
with attic and seven bays of sash windows with glazing brs beneath
gault brick skewback arches at ground floor and renewed to replace
former shop front.
Rusticated quoins
of flint pebbles producing vermiculated effect.
Off-centre (2nd
bay from south) raised and fielded panelled front door with door
case of engaged Corinthian columns supporting a pediment with
modillions.
Off centre axial stack and gable end stack. South
gable-end of galletted
flint with brick tumbling-in.
No.19 Church
Street (east-side), "The White House", Grade II (LB6).
On south-eastern corner of Druid Lane and Church St junction.
Probably
a former shop and dwelling, 18th Century and later.
Brick with
Black pantiled roof.
Two storys and three bays. Four light former
shop window in north bay with simple entablature on pilasters.
Other windows 19th Century sashes with vertical glazing bars.
Central panelled front door with simple door case. Dentiled cornice
with gable end stacks.
Blenheim
House, No.28 Church Street
(west side), Grade II (LB8).
Opposite Druid Lane junction.
House. Circa 1840. Brick with slate roofs.
L plan with single storey
extension to the side and rear.
Two-storey main block with two-bay
north facade and single bay side facade of sash windows with glazing
bars forming octagons.
Pedimented
door-case to single storey extension.
Hipped roofs. Metal railing with
Fleur-de-lys terminals on flint plinth with stone coping.
Included for
group value.
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