Welle Manor Hall
WELLE MANOR HALL, NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1171599
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Welle Manor Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WELLE MANOR HALL, NEW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1171599
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Welle Manor Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELLE MANOR HALL, NEW 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.
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:
- WELLE MANOR HALL, NEW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Upwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 50605 02717
Details
UPWELL NEW ROAD TF 5002 15/40 Welle Manor Hall (formerly listed as 11.8.51 Rectory) G.V. II* Manor House. Mid C14 origin, altered c.1480, C17 and C20. Brick with slate or plain tile roofs. North front of 3 storeys. Full height late C15 porch to left with stone arched doorway of roll and hollow mouldings. Plank and muntin door opens into hall. First floor sash window of porch in original opening below square hood mould on labels. Stepped gable on kneelers with apical ashlar pinnacle set into and protruding above the brickwork. To right of porch 2 stepped gable bays separated by large buttress. Bays of uneven size. Floors defined by arcade of brick trefoils, that between ground and first floors interrupted by the buttress. 3 timber cross casements to ground floor with leaded lights, 2 similar to first floor and one in each gable head. Facade closed to right by polygonal staircase tower entered through arched door. To left of porch a large brick C19 extension of 2 bays and dormer attic : large enternal chimney breast, one sash window each floor and gabled roof. Ridge stack and dormer window right of centre. West return with external stack rising from narrow brick bay. To left one 2-light round arched casement at first floor. C20 casement to ground. South front of 2 gabled bays with C15 polygonal full height stair-turret to right. This with C19 hipped roof. Abutting tower to left is additional 2 storey square tower probably of C14 date, also with C19 pyramid roof. Polygonal stair tower with 3 windows in south facet : to ground floor 2 round-headed lights in square opening; first floor has tall round-headed window with sash below a casement; top floor with 2 round-headed lights beneath square hood on labels. C19 saw toothed eaves cornice. Square tower ground floor obscured by C20 extension. First floor round-headed window under hood mould. Stepped buttress supports western gable to right of which is segmental-headed doorway, first floor sash window and attic casement. C19 extension to east of 2 storeys and dormer attic. Fenestration of cross casements. Gabled cross wing to right with canted bay window through 2 storeys. Gabled roof. Interior. Hall entered from porch through C15 door decorated with arches and shallow niches. Hall retains 2 arched doorways to screen, now blocked. Each of c.1360 with complex wave moulded jambs and continuous arches. Rear stair turret with spiral brick staircase to attic. First floor music room has 2 blocked lancet lights with leaded glass. Roofs of crown posts with straight braces from tie beams and to crown purlin. Crown posts of square section, chamfered at corners, of C15 origin but most of timbers renewed.
Listing NGR: TF5060502717
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 221825
- 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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