Description

TF 83 SE SOUTH CREAKE FAKENHAM ROAD (south)

5/55 Leicester Square Farm
Barn.

G.V. II

Barn. 1793 by Samuel Wyatt for the Holkham Estate. English bond red brick,
gault brick dressings, red pantiled roof. 2 storey elevation, 9 bays.
Distinctive Neo-Classical style. East front has ground floor plinth. 6 honey-
comb brick ventilation windows under segmental brick soldier arches arranged
in single outer and paired centre bays. First floor gault brick plat-band
forming sill of 6 semi-circular rubbed brick arched Diocletian honeycomb brick
ventilation windows. 3 pedimented advanced opposed east and west cart entrances
with segmental arches and plastered typanums. Moulded gault brick cornices
and pediment, lead flashings. Dentil eaves cornice. North and south gables
mid-C20 rebuilding. Central ridge weathervane. West elevation now intact in
2 south-west end bays only, with mid C19 lean-to outshut additions to north
formerly repeated east. East range of symmetrical model farm layout.

Listing NGR: TF8666833698

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26445998

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