Letton Hall
LETTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1077342
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Letton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- LETTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1077342
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Letton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- LETTON 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:
- LETTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TF9715905872
Details
TF 90 NE
5/5
CRANWORTH
Letton Hall
4.12.51
GV II*
Mansion converted into a Christian holiday, house party and conference centre.
1783-89 with major Victorian alterations.
Designed by Sir John Soane. Gault brick with some stone dressings and some colour-washed red brick to service wing. Slate roofs. Main block square in plan originally with lower services to west. Main block of 3 storeys with basement.
Entrance facade altered considerably during C19 by the replacement of the porch and the forward extension of the library. 3 bays. Very deep central porch mainly single storeyed, yet supporting on rear third a first floor advancement. Pair of unfluted Doric columns in antis (thought to be re-used from Soane's original segmental porch) with a full Doric entablature. Semicircular headed doorway with fanlight and a 2-leaf panelled door. Flat roof with a short parapet. First floor advancement has a tripartite sash window within a classical stone surround with cornice and central pediment on consoles. Balustrade above with the arch of Soane's recessed centre bay just visible behind.
Victorian single-storeyed advancement to east with a semicircular headed plate glass sash window and a flat roof. Original windows with glazing bars: recessed and semicircular at ground and first floor levels, rectangular beneath skewback arches to upper storey. Plain 3-header dentil cornice with a short stone parapet.
East facade of 5 bays with central 3 bays slightly advanced, supporting a pediment and reached by a flight of steps flanked by balustrades. Semicircular headed sash windows to ground and first floors, recessed in central 3 bays. Ground floor windows with Victorian plate glass, small top floor windows with skewback arches. Original windows with glazing bars. Victorian single-storeyed extension with a large Venetian French window formerly providing access to a conservatory. Doric entablature.
Services arranged around a courtyard to west with various later changes. South facade nearly symmetrical of 2 storeys and 10 bays. Slightly advanced end bays gabled to east only. Slightly advanced central 5 bays originally single-storeyed. End bay openings set within single semicircular heads, containing arches. Semi-circular headed ground floor windows with glazing bars. Upper windows mainly rectangular with skewback arches. Some windows blind.
Interior. Fine staircase of double apsidal plan with cantilevered stone treads and thin beaded wrought iron balusters with volutes supporting the swept handrail and the surprisingly abstract motif of an angled oblong to every other baluster. Several rooms with good plasterwork and some original chimney pieces survive.
Listing NGR: TF9715905872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220796
- 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.
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