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Listed Buildings in LITCHAM
Church Street


bull.jpgThe 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.

postoffice1.jpgPost 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.

LB8_Blenheim_Ho500.jpgBlenheim 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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