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Latitude: 52.6973 / 52°41'50"N
Longitude: 1.1425 / 1°8'33"E
OS Eastings: 612441
OS Northings: 315704
OS Grid: TG124157
Mapcode National: GBR TCY.TZ9
Mapcode Global: WHLS1.JG8J
Plus Code: 9F43M4WV+W2
Entry Name: Garden Walls Including Owl House at Home Farm, Morton Hall Estate
Listing Date: 18 August 2003
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390577
English Heritage Legacy ID: 490525
ID on this website: 101390577
Location: Broadland, Norfolk, NR9
County: Norfolk
District: Broadland
Civil Parish: Morton on the Hill
Traditional County: Norfolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk
Church of England Parish: Weston Longville with Moreton-on-the-Hill
Church of England Diocese: Norwich
Tagged with: Wall
376/0/10001
18-AUG-03
MORTON ON THE HILL
GARDEN WALLS INCLUDING OWL HOUSE AT HOME FARM, MORTON HALL ESTATE
II
Garden walls and owl house. c. 1830. Red brick laid in Flemish bond.
PLAN: 2 lengths of wall remain meeting at a corner where there is an owl house.
EXTERIOR: tall south and west walls with flat stone capping, meeting at a right angle. Burnt headers used randomly. The south wall with a doorway under a semi-circular head. The outside face of both walls with brick piers at intervals.
At the corner of the walls is a circular brick owl house carried on a sandstone corbel to the inner angle and brick corbelling to the outer angle. 2 storeys terminating in flat brick coping. 2 square openings face north, each formerly leading to a chamber.
INTERIOR: both stages with brick vanes acting as roosts, otherwise plain.
The building has been identified as a purpose-built owl house, and an otherwise unknown building type. Owl houses are known to have been built on farms, but the favoured formula was to incorporate them in gable ends of barns, or even just to have an owl hole by which the birds could enter and exit, the purpose being control of vermin. This extremely unusual two-stage structure must be presumed to have been rare even when built.
Information from Norfolk Archaeological Unit.
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