Ormesby Old Hall
ORMESBY OLD HALL, YARMOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1287569
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ormesby Old Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ORMESBY OLD HALL, YARMOUTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1287569
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ormesby Old Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORMESBY OLD HALL, YARMOUTH 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:
- ORMESBY OLD HALL, YARMOUTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Great Yarmouth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ormesby St. Margaret with Scratby
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 50038 14501
Details
TG 51 SW ORMESBY ST. MARGARET YARMOUTH ROAD WITH SCRATBY (north side)
5/30 Ormesby Old Hall (formerly 20.2.52 listed as Ormesby Hall)
G.V. II*
House. Mid C17 but re-fronted and remodelled 1735. Brick with slate roofs. Double pile plan. South front in header bond only, a great rarity. 2 storeys in 7 bays, the central 3 bays broken forward under pediment. Central panelled door in panelled reveals. Timber doorcase of Tuscan columns on high pedestals supporting Doric entablature. Over door a high relief carving of a bearded head and fruit and foliage trails. Sash windows with glazing bars beneath gauged skewback arches. Platband at first floor. Rusticated quoins close elevation at east and west. Moulded brick eaves cornice below high stone- capped parapet. Within parapet 2 groups of 10 balusters and on parapet stand 5 stone urns symmetrically disposed. Gabled roof with 2 flat-topped dormers. 4 symmetrical ridge stacks. North elevation betrays C17 origins. 2 storeys and dormer attic in 8 bays. Gibbsian doorway in third bay from right containing original pegged and panelled door. Above door is 6-vaned fanlight. Broken segmental pediment stands on keystones and provides a frame for an urn. Fenestration of sash windows in flush frames all with glazing bars and segmental gauged skewback arches. Deep brick ovolo and rolled platband at first floor, of C17. Eaves platband below parapet. Gabled roof with 3 flat- topped dormers. Western gable end stack and ridge stack left of centre. Against western gables is a single storey brick and slate library by R.W. Edis of 1900 : 4 sashes to west and a Gibbsian French window to north; hipped roof. Interior. Entrance hall is square with panelled doors within shouldered architraves leading left and right into principal rooms. Marble fireplace has acanthus leaf ovolo freize augmented by egg and dart motifs. Ahead a round arch leads into rear range and staircase. Moulded plaster cornice with dentilation, egg and dart and guilloche patterning. Room to west with large framed panelling. Plaster cornice with billet and egg and dart mouldings. Door architraves shouldered as before. C19 stick baluster staircase with C18 panelled dado. Ramped and wreathed handrail. Stairwell ceiling is plastered. Rear west room has marble fireplace below a frieze carrying high relief timber vegetative swag reputedly by Gibbons but more like Ivory. Restrained shouldered overmantel with egg and dart and guilloche mouldings. To sides and top Rococo arabesques gaily romp. Modillion cornice to room supported by egg and dart frieze. Library by Edis (who lived here) is designed round set of glazed Gothick bookcases. Tentative plaster ceiling. First floor rooms continue with similar style : large frame panelling, shouldered and decorated doorways, moulded cornices.
Listing NGR: TG5003814501
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402067
- 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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