The Old Hall
The Old Hall, Little Fransham
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1152599
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Hall
- Statutory Address:
- The Old Hall, Little Fransham
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1152599
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Old Hall, Little Fransham
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:
- The Old Hall, Little Fransham
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fransham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 90281 11866
Details
TF 91 SW
10/30
FRANSHAM
LITTLE FRANSHAM
The Old Hall
4.12.51
II*
Farmhouse. C16 and later. Brick, part rendered and mainly colourwashed. Pantile roofs. Two storeys with attic.
North facade has five bays of mainly C18 fenestration, of three-light mullion and transom windows with leaded lights, metal casements and some original fittings beneath segmental arches. One surviving late C17 two-light mullion and transom. Slightly advanced gabled bay with C18 semicircular headed first floor window. Central front door (adjacent to advanced bay) has fine early C18 bracketted hood with segmental pediment and carved consoles and tympanum. South facade with lower C18 service wing attached. Gabled C18 stair outshut with semicircular headed window directly opposite advanced bay to north.One sloping dormer.
East gable end has six late C16 blocked windows with moulded brick pediments. External stack with pair of octagonal shafts may be an addition despite bonded brickwork because it partially blocks gable windows. Moulded brick pediment set into stack at ground floor level and above a fine stucco panel of the arms of Elizabeth I surrounded by a vine scroll. Stone hood mould with star label stops. Off-centre axial stack with four very similar octagonal shafts. East gable with an added C18 external stack.
INTERIOR: at first floor stone dressed ovolo moulded pair of adjacent fireplaces with arched heads and decorative brackets to single mantelpiece. Evidence for a partition between them. Stepped chamfer stops at ground floor, ogee and nicked at first floor. Fine C18 stair with fluted newels, turned balusters, shaped tread-ends and wide handrail. Upstairs room with plaster barrel vault. C18 roof of staggered butt purlins and collars. One C17 panelled stud partition in roof with part of four-centred arched door head surviving. The oak panelling mentioned in previous list appears to have been removed.
Listing NGR: TF9028111866
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220485
- 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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