Pickenham Hall
PICKENHAM HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077234
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Pickenham Hall
- Statutory Address:
- PICKENHAM HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077234
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Pickenham Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- PICKENHAM HALL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PICKENHAM HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Pickenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 85837 04030
Details
SOUTH PICKENHAM - TF 80 SE 10/54 Pickenham Hall 5.11.86 - II
Country house. Built 1902-5 for the banker G.W. Taylor to designs by the architect Robert Weir Schultz, but incorporating parts of an earlier house by W.J. Donthorn. Red brick with hipped plain-tiled roofs. Two storeys and attics. East facade of five bays, each with three windows; bays 2 and 4 have canted 2-storey bays surmounted by shaped attic gables with Venetian windows. Cross-casements with glazing bars; keyed rubbed brick arches over openings. Bays 1 and 5 have central doorway under semi-circular hoods on brackets, the spandrels with carved brick foliage decoration by Laurence Turner. Centre ground floor openings with segmental arched heads. Rusticated brick quoins. Modillion eaves cornice. Main entrance front to west, symmetrical with central doorway recessed under a semicircular broken pediment: tympanum contains coat of arms flanked by figures of boys. Rusticated door surround with pilasters, stone cornice on paired brackets. Carving on entrance surround also attributed to Laurence Turner. Outer bays with two-storey canted bays. Tall staircase window with three transoms; circular window below. Wide modillion eaves. Gabled attic dormers with 2-light casements. Chimney stack symmetrically-placed, the two inner stacks cruciform on plan, the two outer stacks with triple diagonally-set shafts. South facade has central loggia with two semicircular arches on central Ionic pier and plain responds; plastered vaulted ceiling and two pairs of segmental headed glazed doors. Balcony above with balustrade of diagonal pierced brickwork. Loggia flanked by square 2-storey bays with balcony and shaped attic gables with tripartite casements with segmental heads and curved glazing bars. To the north, a lower two-storey double pile service range with three massive ridge-line chimney stacks. Architectural History 22 : 1979 "Robert Weir Schultz" pp 88-115.
Listing NGR: TF8583704030
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 221051
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Architectural History in Architectural History, Vol. 22, (1979), 88 115
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 29 Norfolk,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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