Great Witchingham Hall

GREAT WITCHINGHAM HALL, HALL ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1076861
Date first listed:
19-Jan-1952
Statutory Address:
GREAT WITCHINGHAM HALL, HALL ROAD

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1076861
Date first listed:
19-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
22-Jul-1983
Statutory Address 1:
GREAT WITCHINGHAM HALL, HALL ROAD

Location

Statutory Address:
GREAT WITCHINGHAM HALL, HALL ROAD

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
Broadland (District Authority)
Parish:
Great Witchingham
National Grid Reference:
TG1120318602

Details

TG 11 NW
6/31
19.1.52

GREAT WITCHINGHAM
HALL ROAD
Great Witchingham Hall.
(formerly listed as The Hall).

II*

Country house, now partly offices. Late C16/early C17 in origin, much altered
and remodelled in the C19. Red brick with stone and plastered brick dressings:
steeply pitched slate roof. Two and three storeys. On the south front a
Tudor porch and two adjoining bays, three storeys, mullion and transom windows
with pediments, stepped gables and embattled parapets, South wing of 1812 built
by Timothy Tompson: two storeys, pedimented windows, crow-stepped gables, bays
divided by pilaster with crocketted pinnacles. North front remodelled by
Charles Kett Thompson in 1872: three storeys, millioned, transomed and pedimented
windows, stepped gables and crenellated parapets. Two canted bays with polygonal
angle turrets and finials. Many groups of moulded brick chimney shafts with
star-caps. Good fireplace of 1609 with female figures against the ovemantel.
Some panelling, said to have come from Kirstead Hall.

Listing NGR: TG1120318602

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219939
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