GREAT WITCHINGHAM HALL

GREAT WITCHINGHAM HALL, HALL ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1076861
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: GREAT WITCHINGHAM HALL
Statutory Address:: GREAT WITCHINGHAM HALL, HALL ROAD

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Date:: 2005-05-04
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Official list entry

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

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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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:: TG 11186 18603

Details

TG 11 NW GREAT WITCHINGHAM HALL ROAD

6/31 Great Witchingham Hall. (formerly listed as 19.1.52 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: TG1118618603

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Legacy System number:: 219939
Legacy System:: LBS

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