PLAQUE 10:
Hanworth House
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Grade II listed Hanworth House
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1744 visible in brickwork
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Hanworth House front door
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Fire Insurance Plaque
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Hanworth House from Star Plain
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A fine dwelling house with a distinguishing plaque...
‘Hanworth House’ is one of the finest examples of Georgian architecture in Holt. The impressive Grade II Listed three-storey property would have originally been a dwelling house and the date of 1744 is visible in the brickwork on the east-facing gable.
The classical principles of Georgian design are evident by the symmetry of fenestration, flat rubbed arches with key stones, red brick quoins and a steeply pitched roof with black-glazed pantiles.
The centrally placed doorway has moulded brick surrounds and pilasters and fixed immediately above the canopy is a lead Fire Insurance Plaque bearing the emblem of the Norwich Union Insurance Company.
Fire plaques were used as identification marks in the eighteenth and nineteenth century as a guide to the insurance company’s fire brigade in the days before municipal fire services were formed.
The classical principles of Georgian design are evident by the symmetry of fenestration, flat rubbed arches with key stones, red brick quoins and a steeply pitched roof with black-glazed pantiles.
The centrally placed doorway has moulded brick surrounds and pilasters and fixed immediately above the canopy is a lead Fire Insurance Plaque bearing the emblem of the Norwich Union Insurance Company.
Fire plaques were used as identification marks in the eighteenth and nineteenth century as a guide to the insurance company’s fire brigade in the days before municipal fire services were formed.