2nd World War Memorial Cottages (Europe, Bates, Gristock, Knowland, Randle And Asia) Including The Front Garden Walls, The War Memorial And The Walls And Gatepiers To Mousehold Lane

Heritage listing

Details SPROWSTON 86/0/10005 MOUSEHOLD LANE 09-JUN-06 2ND WORLD WAR MEMORIAL COTTAGES (Europ e, Bates, Gristock, Knowland, Randle a nd Asia) including the front garden wa lls, the war memorial and the walls an d gatepiers to Mousehold Lane II Set of 6 almshouses built as a 2nd World War Memorial. 1948-50. By Cecil Upcher for the Royal Norfolk Regiment Memorial Trust. Red brick with plain-tile roof and ornamental brick stacks with grouped flues. Vernacular Baroque style with curving Dutch gables. Plan of a quarter-circle terrace. Single storey. 12-window range of upvc windows to the original design. Symmetrical SW elevation with 6 shaped gables arranged as single gables to the ends of the facade and 2 paired gables in the centre. Each gable has a Venetian window and has rusticated corners and dentil cornices. In the gable head of each is an oval plaque with keyblocks to the quadrant points, bearing the names of the houses, except the northern ones where the plaques 'Europe 1939-45' and 'Asia 1942-45' are on the pedimented main gable ends. Between the paired shaped gables are rusticated entrances to passageways to the rear. The façade otherwise has 4 half-glazed entrance doors set within recesses and 6 sash-type windows with external shutters. Dentil eaves cornice. North and south returns are treated as large pedimented gables and have a recessed half-glazed doorway within a rusticated arched opening and one casement. On each end of the façade and set back is a garage in similar style linked by an archway. Rear elevation has 4 service blocks projecting at right angles. INTERIOR. Each house is similar except for the plan of the end houses to accommodate the side entry. Wedge-shaped T-plan entrance halls with curving passage end. 4-panel doors. Simple timber fire surrounds.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.