Old Hall

OLD HALL, DEREHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1152045
Date first listed:
04-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:
Old Hall
Statutory Address:
OLD HALL, DEREHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1152045
Date first listed:
04-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:
Old Hall
Statutory Address 1:
OLD HALL, DEREHAM ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
OLD HALL, DEREHAM ROAD

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
Breckland (District Authority)
Parish:
Whinburgh and Westfield
National Grid Reference:
TG 01508 07909

Details

TG 00 NW
6/99
4.12.51

WHINBURGH
DEREHAM ROAD
(east side)
Old Hall

II*

Former farmhouse. Circa 1600 and later. Brick ground floor (re-faced
with brick in C19) with timber framed upper floor. Through-passage plan.
2 storeys with attic. Off-centre C17 gabled porch with a pedimented
arched entrance and blocked window above. Very fine fielded board door
with studs and loop handle. 4-centred arched frame with carved spandrels.
3 ground floor windows, the central one formerly of 5 lights with roll-
moulded and hollow chamfered mullions and transom. (2 mullions have been
removed in order to insert casements). Similar north window of 2 lights
without a transom. South window, a 3-light, ovolo-moulded, Victorian
imitation. 3 imitative late C20 3-light casement windows to first floor.
Roll-moulded bressumer. Some original brickwork visible on south gable-
end. Stepped gables with late C20 cast cement crow steps. Rear door
with cover strips and studs and moulded frame. Off-centre axial stack
with 4 octagonal shafts. Later north gable-end stack with a single C19
octagonal shaft. Later additions to side and rear. Interior. Hall with
deep mouldings to bridging joist, common joists and cornice. Original
fireplace to first floor with a 4-centred arch and incised stucco
decoration. Reduced to take a fine late C18 duck's nest grate. Several
original doorways with 4-centred arches - their spandrels emphasised by
inverted fielding. 2 principal first floor rooms were originally open
to an exceptional crown post roof of 7 bays, the short crown posts rising
from cambered collars. Solid arch braces to collar purlin only and a
set of butt-purlins. Solar originally to northern end only. Moated site.


Listing NGR: TG0150807909

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
220891
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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