House on Scolt Head Island Burnham Norton, England
Listed Building Data
House on Scolt Head Island has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1391200
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 19 October 2004
- Name
- HOUSE ON SCOLT HEAD ISLAND
- Location
- HOUSE ON SCOLT HEAD ISLAND
- Parish
- Burnham Norton
- District
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- County
- Norfolk
- Grid Reference
- TF 80784 46581
- Easting
- 580783.9385
- Northing
- 346581.4413
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
BRANCASTER
487/0/10004 House on Scolt Head Island 19-OCT-04
II Summer Warden's house. c.1926 by Edward Boardman. Weatherboarded, Norfolk oak, hipped shingle roof with gablet, and shore pebble and brick round chimney. PLAN Single storey, square plan with porch to front (south) and later outshuts on the back. EXTERIOR Porch with turned wooden columns and fretwork balustrading. Apron of beach pebbles and brickwork to front. House built on low stilts, but the foundations not inspected as the gap has been filled with corrugated iron to keep rabbits out. Wooden casement windows all original. Circular tall chimney at west end of beach pebbles with brick string courses. The chimney was struck by lightening and rebuilt, possibly in the `60s. INTERIOR Entirely wood-lined - floors and ceilings; single living room to east with chimney piece dating from the chimney rebuild, two small bunkrooms leading off to the east. Original doors and door fittings (one brass knob replaced with a plastic one). A later small bunkroom in outshut to rear, built of wood and wood-lined as the rest of the building. HISTORY The building was financed by public subscription, both the architect and local timber merchant meeting their own costs for the Norfolk Naturalist Trust who had just obtained Scolt Head Island as a nature reserve. (It was later taken over by the National Trust who lease it to English Nature) It has been very little altered since it was built and except for solar-powered lighting no modern facilities have been added. It has been built facing south back to the coast and with its back set into the dunes for shelter. This squat dark building with its distinctive chimney forms an important feature in the landscape. It is an unusually small building to be architect-designed. It was built for a specific purpose in a unique landscape and its survival with virtually no modern alterations makes it both historically and architecturally significant.
