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Latitude: 52.7755 / 52°46'31"N
Longitude: 1.2065 / 1°12'23"E
OS Eastings: 616375
OS Northings: 324589
OS Grid: TG163245
Mapcode National: GBR VDC.ZTP
Mapcode Global: WHLRP.HHQL
Plus Code: 9F43Q6G4+6H
Entry Name: Cawston College
Listing Date: 18 August 2003
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390561
English Heritage Legacy ID: 490504
Also known as: Manor House
ID on this website: 101390561
Location: Broadland, Norfolk, NR10
County: Norfolk
District: Broadland
Civil Parish: Cawston
Traditional County: Norfolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk
Church of England Parish: Cawston St Agnes
Church of England Diocese: Norwich
Tagged with: School building English country house
39/0/10005
18-AUG-03
CAWSTON
AYLSHAM ROAD
CAWSTON COLLEGE
II
Country House. 1896 by Sir Ernest George and Alfred Yeates for George Cawston. Converted to public school 1964. Red brick with stone dressings; tile roofs with stone coped gables with finials. Brick ornamental ridge and side stacks with double, triple and quadruple flues.
Restrained Tudor style with stone mullioned windows throughout.
PLAN: U-plan: principal south block with two north service wings. Mainly 2 storeys.
EXTERIOR: Entrance front is a carefully designed long low asymmetrical composition of 4 3-light windows to first floor with projecting stack to left, 2-storey square bay to right and a large projecting gabled porch to far right with a stack and a facing gable on the end. Further windows to ground floor with high plinth and above them a string course. Entrance in porch has ornamental door case and pedimented tablet over. Left gable end has further windows and, on the other side of the court to rear, another wing completes the U-plan.
The south front is also of 2 storeys; 6-window range. Nearly symmetrical, with 2 full-height polygonal bay windows. Tall plinth of chequered brick and flint with stone set-off. Moulded stone string course at first floor and a moulded stone cornice below the plain parapet. Door to centre right with moulded stone door case. Ground-floor windows with transoms, including to the canted bays, set in stone architraves. First-floor windows without transoms. Later extension to far right in front of further wing and further extension beyond.
INTERIOR: not inspected. 2002 sale particulars mention heavily beamed and low relief plaster ceilings.
This is a very finely detailed country house by a leading architectural practice of the day.
SOURCES:
Building News: 1 May 1896, 15 May 1895 (with a plan and illustrations)
The Architect: 1 May 1896
The Builder: 6 June 1896, p.487
Academy Architecture: 1896, in both volumes
Grainger, H.J., The Architecture of Sir Ernest George and his Partners, c. 1860-1922', Ph.D. Thesis, University of Leeds, 1985
Gray, A. Stuart, Edwardian Architecture: a Biographical Dictionary, London, 1985
Pevsner, N & Wilson, B, Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-east, Penguin Books, London, 1997
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