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Swaffham Prior
Terrace of houses. Circa 1835.
Painted Flemish bond brick. Slate roof with gabled ends and brick modillion eaves. Brick axial stacks one truncated. Plan: terrace of 3 houses, the left and centre houses now one house (No47). Double depth plan; each house with one front room and a smaller heated rear service room from which rises a staircase.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window west front. C19 12-pane sashes. Round arch doorway to left and right with blind fanlight, panelled doors and bootscraper to left; similar doorway to left of centre blocked.
Range of cottages; converted into one house. Probably late C18, extended and altered in C20.
Plastered cob. Pantile roof with gable ends. Brick axial stacks. Plan: Pair of single storey 2-room plan cottages at right angles to each other, the rear left cottage is now the rear wing extended by one room in C20. The rear wing was reputedly once a larger range of cottages. The front range has larger right-hand room and an axial stack with back-to-back fireplaces. Late C20 extension to rear right.
Baptist chapel. Dated 1821; extended later in C19.
Plastered timber frame with Flemish bond gault brick SE front. Pantile roof with gabled ends; slate roof lean to extension. Plan: Single cell rectangular plan (20ft by 30ft) with entrance in SE end, and rostrum at NW end. Later in C19 a lean-to extension was added on the SW side with a fireplace on the outer (SW) wall.
Telephone kiosk, type K6. Designed 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Made by various contractors.
Cast iron. Square kiosk with domed roof. Unperforated crowns to top panels and margin glazing to windows and doors.
Wing, now a garage, added later in C17. Timber framed, rendered at first floor, and ground floor underbuilt in red brick, English bond, late in C17. Plain tiled roof with a ridge stack. Plan of parlour, hall and service bay, with a cross passage between the hall and service bay. Two storeys.
Former parish church of C15 West tower, with early C19 nave, chancel, transepts. Except for the C15 West tower, the whole of the church was rebuilt c1805 to a design by Charles Humfrey of Cambridge.
Front wall of narrow gault brick with red brick quoins, band and door and window surrounds. Flemish bond. Side walls of narrow red and yellow brick, English bond. Steeply pitched, plain tiled roof with end parapets on kneelers and C19 crested ridge tiles. End stacks, the one to the right hand is later. Sawtooth eaves cornice and band at eaves height at gable end. L-plan.
Clunch repaired in brick with plain tiled hipped roof with gablets, and a sawtooth eaves cornice. Square.
Farmhouse of different building periods but principally of hall and cross wing plan. The hall has a late C17 appearance but the cross wing is probably earlier.
Cross wing. Timber framed rendered but front wall cased in brick. Steeply pitched plain tile roof, hipped at rear, with large projecting side stack of C17 brick with upper courses rebuilt C19. Two storeys and attic. One hipped dormer at rear and three casements in segmental arches probably contemporary with front gable end brickwork.
House originally a C14 open hall of which one bay and parts of two other bays survive.





