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HEMPSTEAD HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1152720
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1987
Statutory Address:: HEMPSTEAD HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1152720
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1987
Statutory Address 1:: HEMPSTEAD HALL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: HEMPSTEAD HALL

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: North Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Hempstead
National Grid Reference:: TG 09632 37281

Details

HEMPSTEAD TG 03 NE 2/28 Hempstead Hall II Large farmhouse of C17 origin, largely rebuilt late C19, dated 1880 on wing gable end and 1877 on right gable tie cramp irons. Knapped flint with brick dressings, plain roof tiles with courses of fishscale tiles. Double depth, 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical facade of 3 bays with connecting bay at left to forward projecting wing. Main facade: each bay projects forward cl2cm and continues up to gable dormers with moulded brick coping. Wide brick surrounds to window and doors. Central doorway has moulded brick pediment, double leaved door with glazed upper panels and rectangular fanlight. Tripartite sashes with glazing bars to ground and first floor; sashes to dormers. Two axial stacks each of 4 shafts, 2x2, with chamfered corners. Left hand connecting bay to wing forms through passage. Doorway to front as central doorway, rear door has mullioned fan light under 4-centred arch. Right hand gable has 2 sashes to ground and first floor, one sash to attic, 5 tie cramp irons dated 1877. Forward wing to left: (west), remains of C17 building: 2 storeys, attic and cellar; south gable in coursed flint on flint plinth with quoins and cap of C17 brick; gable raised, former lower line visible, stone plaque at apex dated 1880; walls, windows and roof of east side as main front; west side has coursed flint under pantiles; off-centre axial stack; outshut to west of single storey with attic, was former dairy. Single storey extension to rear of west wing of no special interest.

Listing NGR: TG0963237281

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 224057
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.