White House -Cosy Cottage in North Norfolk Village

Charming Grade II Listed cottage, stylishly furnished throughout. Centrally located village in Norfolk countryside yet within a 30 minute drive to the North Norfolk coast. Secure Garden & off road parking. A Wood-burner adds a cosy feature in the lounge to be enjoyed from the comfy sofas. Luxurious Super King beds add a touch of Boutique Hotel comfort. A couples retreat, it’s not suitable for very young children. A walkers paradise, well behaved Dogs welcome. Saturday check-in 7 night stays. Comfy sitting room with Inglenook with Multi-fuel Stove, large flatscreen Smart TV and Two Three Seater Sofa’s. Super fast internet access throughout the cottage. Mobile signal around Norfolk on some networks can be a bit patchy however, the wifi Internet in the cottage has a fantastic speed so internet calls from your mobile make it possible to still make calls. Cosy separate Dining Room with Feature Fireplace, large Oak Table and Bluetooth speaker and Dab Radio. Hotel quality Super King size beds in both bedrooms. Linen, Bath and Hand Towels are included. Bathroom has a Powerful Power shower above the Large Bath. Pedestal Hand Basin with Mirror above. Please note the bathroom does not have a Shaver Socket. Kitchen is equipped with cutlery, Pans , glasses Mugs, bowls and dinnerware. Electric Cooker, Microwave Oven, Nespresso Coffee Machine, Dishwasher, Fridge Freezer. Tea Towels are included. Utility has a washing machine, Hoover, separate Belfast sink an Iron and Ironing board and clothes airer above a radiator. Rear Hall you will find a place to hang coats and boots and the downstairs cloakroom comprising of wash hand basin and Toilet. Sunny rear garden with patio area and garden table and chairs for Al fresco dining The cottage has secure off road parking for one car accessed within the equally secure rear Garden. Off road parking, private secure Garden. Outside table and chairs for al fresco dining Call me anytime or txt message Village has a delightful cosy pub within 5 minute walk,. The Bull Inn is a 17th-century coaching inn with parts dating back to the 14th century. It is the one surviving of many pubs once serving the village. Here you will find a great choice of drinks and fabulous food theres comfy seating and open fires to just sit and enjoy the atmosphere. Litcham has a fish and chip shop and they will take your order over the phone to save time, details in the cottage. Post office and local shop stocks almost all the normal provisions you are likely to need to get you started when you arrive. The countryside is on the doorstep with plenty of lovely country walks to enjoy. Peddars Way and Norfolk Coastal Path on the doorstep. The North Norfolk Coastline; Wells next the sea, Holkham, Hunstanton, Brancaster with beaches, seals, RSPB and nature reserves, Holkham Hall, Royal Sandringham Estate and Norfolk Lavender fields are 30 mins scenic drive, with the Norfolk Broads, a short distance further. Litcham lies within the Brecks with its evocative atmosphere and attractions. Litcham is situated some 10 km north-east of the town of Swaffham and 40 km west of the city of Norwich. The Village is located on the B1145 a route which runs between King's Lynn and Mundesley. The parish falls within the district of Breckland. Litcham is in the Launditch hundred of the Breckland district of Norfolk, England. It is almost equidistant from three major market towns: East Dereham, Fakenham and Swaffham. Litcham sits along the Litcham to Gressenhall Nar Valley Way Heritage Trail. This section of the Nar Valley way starts in Litcham and ends in Gressenhall. The Heritage Trail takes in the following points of interest you will notice point 3 is the White House ! 1. Priory Farmhouse - NHER 4072 Priory Farmhouse contains the remains of a 14th century religious building. It may have been a chapel, although in 1410 it was called a hermitage. In the 16th century the religious building was converted into a house and it has been altered and extended on many occasions since. To the northwest of the farmhouse are the remains of a moated site. Much of the moat survives as earthworks, although most of the south and east sides have been infilled. Medieval walls, pottery and a large feature, possibly the south side of the moat, have been found during building work. Houses now stand within the moat. The 17th century and later Priory Barn (now a house) is to the north of the farmhouse and to the east of the moat. 2. Site of the village stocks – NHER 11294 Opposite Priory Farm is the site of the village stocks. 3. The White House - NHER 44322 The White House, Church Street dates from the 18th century and was once a shop. It is built of rendered brick and has a former shop window with a simple entablature and pilasters. 4. Medieval moat - NHER 15535 The cropmarks and slight earthworks of a medieval moat and a medieval to post medieval trackway have been identified from aerial photographs in the field to the east of Drury Lane. A Neolithic flint scraper and medieval and post medieval coins and pottery have been found on the site. 5. Bronze Age ring ditches – NHER 17656 In the field next to the footpath aerial photography has revealed the cropmarks of three ring ditches. When the area was visited, two of the three ring ditches were visible as low mounds and prehistoric flint tools were found on one of those. 6. Greynston Manor – NHER 13536 The footpath runs next to Lounds Wood, which is the site of the moated medieval manor of Greynston that is mentioned in documents dating back to the 13th century. 7. Deserted medieval village of Grenstein – NHER 7225 The footpath runs through the site of the deserted medieval village of Grenstein, which was in existence from the 11th century. The village grew up around a green known as Dowes Green or Woodmere Green, and had been deserted by the 16th century. The earthworks of the village were ploughed in 1959, but the village street and the outline of the houses are clearly visible on aerial photographs. To the east of the village site is the site of another medieval manor known as Caley’s Manor. One of the village houses, or tofts, was excavated in the 1960s, revealing a medieval to post medieval farmstead, with a house and a large flint-surfaced farmyard with farm buildings. The buildings were built of clay lump, a technique that was still in use in Norfolk in the late 19th century. Fragments of medieval and post medieval pottery and animal bones have been found on the site. 8. Telephone box – NHER 44611 As you walk down Back Lane you will see a traditional telephone box with a domed roof. This type of telephone box, the K6, was designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. 9. Mileham Castle – NHER 7230 (accessible to the public) Straddling the B1145, a pre-Conquest road that remained the main east-west route through the county until the 17th century, this is the largest motte and bailey castle in Norfolk. It was constructed in about 1100 and its remains form a surprisingly imposing monument consisting of a motte built up around the fragments of a stone keep, two baileys and a further banked rectangular enclosure to the north of the road, which now contains Burwood Hall (built in 1793) and farm buildings. A large wooded deer park was once attached to the south of the castle. The positioning of the castle astride the road is thought to have been connected with raising revenue from a possible market place in the northern enclosure and from tolls on travellers. It is probable that the castle had fallen out of use by about 1300, but before then the tall keep, probably whitewashed, when seen against the green wooded backdrop of the deer park, would have been an impressive sight. View of the earthworks of the deserted medieval village taken from near Dairy Farm. The earthworks of the deserted medieval village of Little Bittering. (© NCC) 10. Deserted medieval village of Little Bittering– NHER 7266 (accessible to the public) The site of the medieval village of Little Bittering is visible as earthworks. These include at least one moat, a row of village properties (tofts), drainage ditches and possible ridge and furrow. Excavations and fieldwork have uncovered evidence of a prehistoric burnt mound (pot boilers), prehistoric flint artefacts, part of a lava quern stone and prehistoric, Roman, Middle Saxon, medieval and post medieval pottery. View of SS Peter and Paul's Church from the western end. SS Peter and Paul's Church, Bittering. (© NCC) 11. SS Peter and Paul's Church, Little Bittering – NHER 7267 (accessible to the public) A 12th and 13th century church, with a 17th century bell tower and buttresses. Inside there is a late medieval rood screen. By 1954 the church was derelict but it has been restored since. The building stands in an isolated position amongst the deserted medieval village of Little Bittering. View of the Fen Causeway Roman road taken in Beeston with Bittering. The Roman road known as the Fen Causeway. (© NCC) 12. Fen Causeway - NHER 2976 Stony Lane runs along the course of the Fen Causeway, which is the name given to the Roman road that runs from a junction with Ermine Street and King Street near Peterborough across the Cambridgeshire and Norfolk fens. In a number of places the road is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs, whilst in several places it survives as a landscape feature. Sections of the road have been excavated on a number of occasions, revealing a cambered metalled surface and side ditches. 13. Methodist chapel – NHER 14160 Methodist Chapel and Chapel Cottage on Bilney Road is a 17th century timber framed cottage, with an early 19th century clay lump and brick chapel. The chapel was originally built as a school, before becoming a Methodist chapel in the 1920s. 14. Site of Great Bittering mill – NHER 20064 This is the site of a Great Bittering Mill, a smock mill that was sold in 1837. The mill is recorded until the late 19th century. The east wing of the workhouse. The 18th century former workhouse in Gressenhall. This wing is now the offices of Norfolk Historic Environment Service. (© NCC) 15. Gressenhall workhouse – NHER 2819 (accessible to the public) The walk ends near Gressenhall Workhouse. The workhouse was built in 1777, one of the earliest 'Houses of Industry' in Norfolk. The main block and the east wing date from the 18th century, whilst the chapel, boundary wall and other buildings within the complex date from the 19th century. The building was in use as a workhouse until 1948, when it became an old people's home. The building is now a museum and the offices of Norfolk Landscape Archaeology. 16. Gressenhall farm – NHER 2822 (accessible to the public) This is the site of the medieval chapel and college of St Nicholas, founded in the 13th century. The chapel held the manor of Rougholme, and the chapel and the manorial buildings fell into ruins by the 18th century. The barn contains some blocks of reused medieval masonry. The present farmhouse may date back to the late 18th century, when the workhouse infirmary stood on the site. An evaluation carried out by the NAU in 1999 revealed medieval ditches and pits, probably part of a field system, as well as medieval pottery. Sarah Spooner (NLA), Spring 2006. More details follow the link below. (Website hidden by Airbnb) Litcham fairly central so is well placed to explore all that North Norfolk has to offer. Nearby Train Stations Kings Lynn 16.5 miles Attleborough 17.3 miles Nearby Airports Norwich International 20.6 miles There are buses in to the village, which travel around the North Norfolk area, timetables should be checked with Breckland Council website. I would recommend a car if you wish to explore the all that this area of Norfolk has to offer. There are also so many lovely rural walks on the doorstep so if you are here to walk the many footpaths around Litcham stretching your legs across the stunning countryside, exploring the neighbouring Villages such as Castle Acre with its landmarks and places of interest. Please take care of our cottage as if it were your own home, we welcome Dogs but please be mindful if they are muddy there’s an outside tap to wash them and a utility room and rear hall where they can dry off before coming back into the rest of the house, please bring along your own extra towels for your pets and throws to protect floors and furniture.