KIRBY CANE HALL

KIRBY CANE HALL, WASH LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1050591
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: KIRBY CANE HALL
Statutory Address:: KIRBY CANE HALL, WASH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1050591
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: KIRBY CANE HALL
Statutory Address 1:: KIRBY CANE HALL, WASH LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: KIRBY CANE HALL, WASH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Norfolk
District:: South Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Kirby Cane
National Grid Reference:: TM 37292 94105

Details

KIRBY CANE WASH LANE TM 39 SE 7/82 Kirby Cane Hall (formerly 25.9.51 listed as The Hall)

GV II*

Country house. C17 with late C18/early C19 remodelling. Red brick with pantiled roof, hipped over rear range. Three storeys and two storeys with attics. The main facade to the south is a refronting by Lord Berners of c.1800: seven bays, three storeys, symmetrical. Sashes with glazing bars, gauged skewback arches over openings. Central doorway with panelled reveal, 2-leaf doorand rectangular fanlight with web-pattern glazing bars. Portico with Doric pilasters and two massive Tuscan columns, re-used. Moulded brick string course at first and second floor levels. Wooden modillion eaves cornice. East and west walls show steeper gable line of original house: 4-light mullion and transom windows with segmental pediments at second floor level, lower window openings blocked. Ground floor doorways in east wall with glazed panelled doors and 6-light fanlights, formerly entrance to conservatory (now demolished). To the west, a one-bay single storey wing with sash window and eaves parapet on moulded string course; corner pilasters with moulded finial on south-west corner. Hipped 2 1/2 storey rear range with sashes with glazing bars, some in segmental-headed openings; two 4-light brick mullion and transom windows on east side. Chimney stacks symmetrically placed on rear of south range. Interior: rear hall of two-storey height containing fine oak staircase dated 1642 with heavy turned newels and balusters on closed string with round billet moulding. Staircase hall has oak panelling to first floor level and ceiling with heavy roll-moulded beams. 5-light mullion and transom stair window with C19 stained glass panels. Good C18 fireplaces in two principal ground floor rooms; drawing room panelled 1936 with cedar from a tree felled in the park.

Listing NGR: TM3729294105

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 226859
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.