Lexham Hall
LEXHAM HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077484
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Lexham Hall
- Statutory Address:
- LEXHAM HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077484
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Lexham Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEXHAM 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:
- LEXHAM HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lexham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF8665117165
Details
TF 81 NE
4/11
LEXHAM
EAST LEXHAM
Lexham Hall
4.12.51
- II
Mansion. Circa 1700 and later. Restored from 1948 by J.F. Watson.
Colour washed brick with slate roofs. Original house long rectangle. C18 wing added to east end of south side which now forms entrance facade. Rear pile added in later C18. 2 storeys with attics and cellars.
North facade (original entrance facade) of 7 bays of sash windows with glazing bars beneath skewback arches (eastern 4 blind and painted). 3 centre bays slightly advanced with a Victorian former 2-storey porch added to centre bay. Wide moulded platband, rusticated quoins and restored modillion cornice. 5 flat roofed dormers. Present entrance facade of 7 bays of sash windows with glazing bars (6 to south blind) beneath skewback arches. Pedimented central porch by J.F. Watson. Fixed jalousie shutters. Cornice and platband as north. 3 gabled dormers.
South facade at eastern end of 5 bays of sash windows with glazing bars beneath skewback arches. French windows to centre bay beneath segmental arch. Fixed jalousie shutters. Cornice and platband as north. Remainder of south facade recessed. Staircase bay with fine Venetian window. Doorway with rusticated surround and scrolled pediment with festoon by J.F. Watson. Conservatory also by J.F. Watson. Some late C18 plasterwork and one plaster panelled room.
Listing NGR: TF8665117165
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220412
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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