Summary

Car garage, built around 1911.

Description

Car garage, built around 1911.

MATERIALS: The roof is thatched with Norfolk reed, and the walls are half timbered and rough rendered.

PLAN: The building is T-shaped on plan, aligned east to west with a projection from the centre of the south side.

EXTERIOR: The garage building is one-and-half storeys in height and T-shaped on plan, projecting south towards the river. The roof is pitched, gabled to the east, west and south, and has a Norfolk reed thatch covering with an ornamental ridge. The walls are half timbered and rough rendered. The windows are generally flat arched with moulded timber mullions, leaded lights and timber sills (some of which have recently been renewed). The two windows on the west and south projections closest the house are round-arched and segmental-arched; a kennel opening has been introduced under the round-arched window. The east gable, facing the York stone paved courtyard north of the house, has an ornate clock to the apex, comprising a round, convex metal sheet, metal hands, and roman numerals and ‘BUREFIELD / HORNING’ painted in gold. The timber garage doors on the east gable appear to be original and bear their original door furniture.

INTERIOR: Internally the garage occupying the east and south projections is L-shaped on plan and has a poured concrete floor. The workshop at the west end is rectangular on plan. At the junction of the two rooms is a chimneystack (inaccessible at time of site visit). The windows retain moulded mullions and original window furniture, similar in style to the earliest phase of the neighbouring house. There is a ladder from the garage to a mezzanine level over the workshop, and a steel beam appears to have been introduced in the mid- or late C20.

History

The motor garage 5m north-west of Burefield is part of the property of Burefield (NHLE 1494727). Although undated, its construction was contemporary with that of the first house on this site around 1911 and the boat and agricultural shed 65m south of the Burefield.

For a more detailed history of Burefield see NHLE 1494727.

Reasons for Listing

The garage 5m north-west of Burefield, built around 1911, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:
* as an estate building executed in the picturesque or cottage orné style favoured in the northern Broads and for the waterside chalets around Horning and Wroxham;
* for its strong vernacular quality and craftsmanship, employing locally sourced Norfolk reed, timber framing and roughcast render;
* as a rare and early example of a detached purpose-built motor house on a country estate;
* it has been little altered and retains much of its original joinery and fixtures.

Historic interest:
* as evidence of the evolving social, ecological, sporting and recreational history of the Broads in the late C19 and C20, and the increased demand for a quieter life in the countryside during the C20.

Group value:
* for the historic and functional group the garage forms with Burefield, a holiday cottage built around 1911 and extended as a family home in the mid-1930s, and its numerous estate buildings, including a barn, moon gate and garden wall, tractor shed and apple store, tennis court, machinery shed, boat shed 65m south of the house and summerhouse, each listed at Grade II.

Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)