West Hall
WEST HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1171962
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- West Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WEST HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1171962
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- West Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST 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:
- WEST HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mundford
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Didlington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7977294013
Details
TL 79 SE
7/5
DIDLINGTON
West Hall
II*
House. C16 with C17 and C18 additions.
Close-studded timber frame (mainly rendered over) and a returned masonry south gable-end with ashlar quoins. Colourwashed brick and flint C17 addition. Coursed clunch C18 addition. Pantile roofs. Primitive block with a C17 side addition to which an C18 block was added at right angles forming an L plan. Primitive wing of 2 storeys with attic. Both facades jettied with a moulded bressumer to east (entrance) facade only. Off-centre late C18 front door with 3 contemporary sash windows with glazing bars to ground floor. First floor with several blocked original hollow-chamfered mullion windows: one of 2 lights; 2 of 2 lights and one of 3 lights with an adjoining, apparently contemporary, taller 2-light mullion and transom window. 3 gabled dormers with shaped barge boards. South gable-end with stack. One original 2-light hollow-chamfered mullion window beneath a rectangular hood mould on eastern return, 3 modern openings on gable-end itself. C17 lean-to stair outshut to west with a 3-light C18 window with metal casement.
Rear facade with one ground floor C18 3-light mullion and transom window with metal casements. C20 flat-roofed single-storeyed extension. Apparent close-studding to first floor and small section of ground floor. 3 blocked original windows with mullions not visible. One late C19 sash window, one modern 2-light window with metal casements. C17 staged external stack. Gable-end chimney shaft rebuilt. C17 side extension of 2 storeys with a later shallow pitched roof retaining, however, the steeply pitched gable parapet. 2 C18 ground floor mullion and transom windows to west: of 2 and 3 lights with metal casements. 3 modern first floor windows (one blocked). 3 2-light casements and one 2-light diamond mullion window to east. Gable-end stack.
C18 wing not of special interest.
Interior. Primitive wing with roll and hollow roll moulded bridging joists. Fine C17 dog's leg stair with shaped board balusters. One C17 chamfered arched fireplace to first floor. One C18 duck's nest fire grate at first floor. Clasped purlin roof with inserted floor/ceiling. C17 side addition with an extraordinarily elaborate late-Medieval carved bridging joist with deeply undercut helical leaf patterns. Belongs to a set of 3 transverse bridging joists, the C17 addition clearly having been designed to accommodate them. Many replaced common joists.
This building is also in Mundford parish.
Listing NGR: TL7977294013
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220952
- 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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